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. 15 shown for “Howard Pyle” — 53 records examined, 38 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 19:59 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Master Jacob, for "The Wonder Clock"
Howard Pyle · 1887
She Was Silent
Henry Wolf, born Eckwersheim, Alsace 1852-died New York City 1916 · 1889
Sir Launcelot and Elouise the Fair, for "The Story of the Champions of the Round Table"
Howard Pyle · 1905
May Be "Shipwrecked"
Henry Wolf, born Eckwersheim, Alsace 1852-died New York City 1916 · 1890
The Blacksmith Chooses Ye Raven and Runs Away With It, for "The Wonder Clock"
Howard Pyle · 1887
Cooking a Camp Dinner
Henry Wolf, born Eckwersheim, Alsace 1852-died New York City 1916 · 1877
The Master of the Black Arts Bringeth a Curious Little Black Hen to the King, for "The Wonder Clock"
Howard Pyle · 1887
Washington the Young Surveyor
Henry Wolf, born Eckwersheim, Alsace 1852-died New York City 1916 · 1888
A Princess Walks Beside ye Water, into Whose Basket Leaps ye Ring, for "The Wonder Clock"
Howard Pyle · 1887
William Corbett's School
Henry Wolf, born Eckwersheim, Alsace 1852-died New York City 1916 · 1880
What Happened to the Master of Black Arts after All His Tricks, for "The Wonder Clock"
Howard Pyle · 1887
The Princess Dwells in the Oak Tree Where ye Wild Pigeons Come to Feed Her, for "The Wonder Clock"
Howard Pyle · 1887
Title Page for "The Wonder Clock, or Four & Twenty Marvelous Tales, Being One for Each Hour of the Day"
Howard Pyle · 1887
Art Year Book 1884
New England Institute · 1884
Mug
Volkmar Ceramic Company · 1899
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. 13 matched · 13 examined · 3 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.10 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 44669 matched · 40 examined · 35 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.5 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 19:59 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.