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 “Hughes Aircraft Co.” — 64 records examined, 48 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 08:58 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Vase
Hugh C. Robertson · ca. 1896–1908
Model, Lunar Lander, Surveyor, 1/5 Scale
Hughes Aircraft Co.
Trade Card for J. Hughes & Co., Engraver
Anonymous · 19th century
Hughes H-1 Racer
Hughes Aircraft Co.
Ewer and Plateau
Gorham Manufacturing Company · 1901
Lunar Lander, Surveyor
Hughes Aircraft Co.
Punch Bowl
Gorham Manufacturing Company · 1901
Tripod censer
Artist not stated in the record · mid-18th century
Jug
Rookwood Pottery Company · 1892
Untitled
David Jarbour · 1825–31
The Stockbridge Cup
Henry Hugh Armstead · 1870
The Golden State Entering New York Harbor
Fitz Henry Lane (formerly Fitz Hugh Lane) · 1854
Bacchanal
Michel Dorigny · 17th century
Figure Studies
Sebastiano Ricci · 1659–1734
St. Eustache, Paris
David Cox · 1829
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. 131 matched · 24 examined · 11 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. 249459 matched · 40 examined · 37 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.3 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 08:58 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.