OpenTwo archives, queried live.
Every record below comes from The Met or Smithsonian Open Access and was filtered on that archive’s own rights field before it reached this page. 13 shown for “Helen Farnsworth Mears” — 44 records examined, 15 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 21:01 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Edward Alexander MacDowell
Helen Farnsworth Mears · 1906, cast 1907
Gomphrena vermicularis L.
Artist not stated in the record · 15 Sep 1958
Walter H. Mears
William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845 · c. 1803-04
Alternanthera flava (L.) Mears
Artist not stated in the record
Guilleminea densa var. humilis Mears
Artist not stated in the record · Sep 1924
Alternanthera flavogrisea subsp. diffusa (Mart.) Mears
Artist not stated in the record · 4 Jun 1887
Alternanthera flavogrisea subsp. diffusa (Mart.) Mears
Artist not stated in the record · 31 Mar 1913
Alternanthera flavogrisea subsp. diffusa (Mart.) Mears
Artist not stated in the record · 22 May 1937
Alternanthera flavogrisea subsp. diffusa (Mart.) Mears
Artist not stated in the record · 6 Aug 1949
Alternanthera flavogrisea subsp. diffusa (Mart.) Mears
Artist not stated in the record · 26 May 1921
Alternanthera flavogrisea subsp. diffusa (Mart.) Mears
Artist not stated in the record · 1 Sep 1888
Alternanthera flava (L.) Mears
Artist not stated in the record · Dec 1945
Alternanthera porrigens var. ovata Mears var. nov. ined.
Artist not stated in the record · 25 May 1939
Where these records came from.
Two archives are wired, and only two. Each one is filtered on its own rights field — never on a title match, and never on the presence of an image file.
- The Met Collection API (Open Access)Rights field:
isPublicDomain. 4 matched · 4 examined · 3 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.1 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 20109 matched · 40 examined · 12 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.12 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 21:01 UTC, during this request. A completed pass is kept for 24 hours and replayed for an identical search, which is what keeps repeated queries inside Smithsonian’s 30-requests-per-hour allowance. A pass in which either archive failed to answer is never kept — an outage must not be replayed as though it were a finding about the catalogue.
Wikimedia Commons and the Library of Congress are deliberately not wired. Wikimedia was confirmed, on a live query, to return CC-BY material inside the same result set as genuine public domain works, and filtering it safely has not been designed yet. loc.gov was blocked by bot detection during the source evaluation, so its rights vocabulary has never been observed — and nothing here is built on a field nobody has read.
An image file is a rights claim. It never travels without its field.