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 Thomas Alken” — 64 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-10 18:21 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Symptoms of a First Voyage
Henry Thomas Alken · 1822
Sphagnum imbricatum Hornsch. ex Russow
Artist not stated in the record · 5 Jul 1904
One Day's Sport of Three Real Good Ones Numbers will beat Science... The Corinthians bear the brunt
Henry Thomas Alken · 1823
Achillea crithmifolia Waldst. & Kit.
Artist not stated in the record · 3 Aug 1900
One Days Sport of Three Real Good Ones. The Corinthians making it up...by showing the Johnny Raws how to Grog it
Henry Thomas Alken · 1823
Achillea crithmifolia Waldst. & Kit.
Artist not stated in the record · 26 Jun 1897
Songs: "My love she's so pretty..."
Henry Thomas Alken · 1822
Thomas Henry Carter
Ida Story Hammond · c. 1890
Songs: "Deserted by the waning moon..."
Henry Thomas Alken · 1822
George Henry Thomas
Ehrgott & Forbriger Lithography Company, active 1856 - 1869 · c. 1862
Songs: "Far removed from Noise & Smoke..."
Henry Thomas Alken · 1822
George Henry Thomas
William Sartain, 1843 - 1924 · c. 1866
Songs: "When jealous out of Season..."
Henry Thomas Alken · 1822
George Henry Thomas
Jacques Reich, 10 Aug 1852 - 8 Jul 1923 · c. 1899-1920
Songs: "With ____ mixture without measure..."
Henry Thomas Alken · 1822
George Henry Thomas
E. & H. T. Anthony & Company, active 1852 - 1901 · c. 1864
Songs: "Throwing off dull melancholy..."
Henry Thomas Alken · 1822
George Henry Thomas
Mathew B. Brady, 1823? - 15 Jan 1896 · 1853
Two Soldiers of a Cavalry Unit, with Horses and Grooms
Henry Thomas Alken · 1823
George Henry Thomas
E. & H. T. Anthony & Company, active 1852 - 1901 · c. 1860
Songs: "Ye Gentlemen of England That Live at Ease..."
Henry Thomas Alken · 1822
Henry Finn and Thomas Kilner
David Claypoole Johnston, Mar 1799 - 8 Nov 1865 · 1826
Songs: "When in death I shall calm recline..."
Henry Thomas Alken · 1822
George H. Thomas
John Chester Buttre, 10 Jun 1821 - 2 Dec 1893 · 1865
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. 1519 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. 233289 matched · 40 examined · 19 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 2026-09-10 18:21 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.