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. 14 shown for “James Deane” — 64 records examined, 38 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 04:00 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Ichnographs from the Sandstone of Connecticut River
James Deane · published 1861
Thryothorus ludovicianus ludovicianus
Artist not stated in the record · 1968
Presentation Smallsword with Scabbard
James Morisset · hallmarked for 1797–98
The Subsiding of the Waters of the Deluge
Thomas Cole, born Bolton-le-Moors, England 1801-died Catskill, NY 1848 · 1829
Armor of Sir James Scudamore (1558–1619)
Jacob Halder · ca. 1595–96; restored and completed, 1915
Photograph of airmail being loaded in New Brunswick, New Jersey
Artist not stated in the record · July 1, 1925
Grand Piano
Steinway & Sons · 1868
Harquebusier's Armor of Pedro II, King of Portugal (reigned 1683–1706) with Buff Coat
Richard Holden · ca. 1683 and later; buff coat, 17th–18th century
Mrs. Grace Dalrymple Elliott (1754?–1823)
Thomas Gainsborough · 1778
Portions of a Boy's Costume Armor
Hans Seusenhofer · 1532
Portrait of a Gentleman
James Peale · 1794
Archer's Shield (Pavise)
Artist not stated in the record · 15th century
Armor
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1450 and later
Left Tasset (Thigh Defense) from a Boy's Costume Armor
Hans Seusenhofer · ca. 1532
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. 111 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 125102 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 2026-09-06 04:00 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.