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. 23 shown for “Howe, Frederick Webster” — 57 records examined, 21 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 17:23 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
In Honor of Admiral Lord Howe, 1794
Conrad Heinrich Küchler · 1794
Patent Model of a Book-Sewing Machine
Howe, Frederick Webster · ca 1870
Watch
William Webster · ca. 1720–30
Trochammina mehli Conkin & Conkin, 1964
Artist not stated in the record
Quarter repeater watch
William Webster · ca. 1770
Phyllanthus caroliniensis subsp. saxicola (Small) G.L. Webster
Artist not stated in the record · 5 Feb 1905 to 13 Feb 1905
Songs of Shakespeare, Illustrated by the Etching Club
William Shakespeare · 1843
Phyllanthus caroliniensis subsp. saxicola (Small) G.L. Webster
Artist not stated in the record · 31 Jan 1905
Whistle
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century
Phyllanthus caroliniensis subsp. saxicola (Small) G.L. Webster
Artist not stated in the record · 21 Feb 1905 to 22 Feb 1905
Ceremonial Sword and Sheath
Ìgùn Ematon (blacksmith guild) artists · 1856–97
Setaria jubiflora (Trin.) R.D. Webster
Artist not stated in the record · 18
Harp Guitar
Joseph Laurent Mast · 1827
Agrostis perennans (Walter) Tuck.
Artist not stated in the record · 13 Jul 1890
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Astronomical watch
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1580
Glyceria melicaria (Michx.) F.T. Hubb.
Artist not stated in the record · 13 Jul 1890
The Commissioners
Matthias Darly · April 1, 1778
Halimeda simulans M. Howe
Artist not stated in the record · 29 Feb 1960
Serpent labret with articulated tongue
Mexica artist(s) · 1325–1521 CE
Hydroclathrus clathratus (C. Agardh) M. Howe
Artist not stated in the record · 29 Feb 1960
The Wedding of Stephen Beckingham and Mary Cox
William Hogarth · 1729
Halymenia echinophysa Collins & M. Howe
Artist not stated in the record · 19 Jul 1960
Udotea flabellum (J. Ellis & Sol.) M. Howe
Artist not stated in the record · 1 Apr 1960
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. 17 matched · 17 examined · 6 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.11 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 69504 matched · 40 examined · 15 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 2026-09-02 17:23 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.