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. 12 shown for “Howe’s Patent Model of a Pin Making Machine - ca 1841” — 40 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 15:22 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Howe’s Patent Model of a Pin Making Machine - ca 1841
Artist not stated in the record · ca 1841
Patent Model of a Book-Sewing Machine
Howe, Frederick Webster · ca 1870
1854 - Walter Hunt's Patent Model of a Sewing Machine
Artist not stated in the record · 1854-06-27
1846 - Elias Howe Jr.'s Sewing Machine Patent Model
Artist not stated in the record · 1846-09-10
1863 - Amasa Howe's Sewing Machine Patent Model
Artist not stated in the record · 1863 03 17 / 1863 03 17
Patent Model of a Type-Making Machine
Smith, John J. C. · ca 1864
Patent model for machine for making book covers
Danforth, Loring · ca 1854
Machine for Wrapping Wire-Rope, Patent Model
Artist not stated in the record · 1842
Patent Model of a Typesetting Machine
Pattyson, William D. C. · ca 1875
Patent Model of a Machine for Coating Electrotype Molds with Plumbago
Tucker, Stephen D. · ca 1868
Patent Model of a Mechanism for Trimming Stereotype Plates
Scott, Walter · ca 1879
Patent Model of a Bookbinding Machine
Durkee, George B. · ca 1885
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. The archive returned no records for this term.0 matched - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 3950270 matched · 40 examined · 6 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 15:22 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.