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. 24 shown for “Henry Louis Stephens, 1824 - 1882” — 64 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 20:59 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
The Death of Socrates
Jacques Louis David · 1787
Henry Louis Stephens
Max Rosenthal, 23 Nov 1833 - 8 Aug 1918 · 1851
The Public Viewing David's "Coronation" at the Louvre
Louis Léopold Boilly · 1810
The Hen That Hatched This Egg
Max Rosenthal, 23 Nov 1833 - 8 Aug 1918 · 1851
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836)
Jacques Louis David · 1788
The Comic Natural History of the Human Race
Henry Louis Stephens, 1824 - 1882 · 1851
Our Young Folks, an Illustrated Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. III, Nos. I-XII
John Townsend Trowbridge · 1867
C-Bass
Max Rosenthal, 23 Nov 1833 - 8 Aug 1918 · 1851
The Death of the Virgin
Bartolomeo Vivarini · 1484
Masonic Terrapin
Max Rosenthal, 23 Nov 1833 - 8 Aug 1918 · 1851
Same Old Coon (Henry Clay), from "The Comic Natural History of the Human Race"
Henry Louis Stephens · 1851
Humming Bird
Max Rosenthal, 23 Nov 1833 - 8 Aug 1918 · 1851
The Hen That Hatched This Egg (Henry L. Stephens), Title Page, from "The Comic Natural History of the Human Race"
Henry Louis Stephens · 1851
Robert Bonner
Bobbett & Hooper Wood Engraving Co., active 1855 - 1870? · 1862
Lark, from "The Comic Natural History of the Human Race"
Henry Louis Stephens · 1851
Edwin Forrest
Artist not stated in the record · 1851
Humming Bird (Thomas B. Florence), from "The Comic Natural History of the Human Race"
Henry Louis Stephens · 1851
Sun Bird
Max Rosenthal, 23 Nov 1833 - 8 Aug 1918 · 1851
Alms House Bird, from "The Comic Natural History of the Human Race"
Henry Louis Stephens · 1851
Catorn's Warbler
Max Rosenthal, 23 Nov 1833 - 8 Aug 1918 · 1851
Giraffe (John E. Owens as Jakey), from "The Comic Natural History of the Human Race"
Henry Louis Stephens · 1851
Bird of Paradise
Max Rosenthal, 23 Nov 1833 - 8 Aug 1918 · 1851
Woodpecker (William B. Gihon), from "The Comic Natural History of the Human Race"
Henry Louis Stephens · 1851
Taylor Bird
Max Rosenthal, 23 Nov 1833 - 8 Aug 1918 · 1851
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. 63 matched · 24 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.12 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 228719 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-09-06 20:59 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.