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. 17 shown for “James Fergusson” — 45 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 06:59 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
The illustrated handbook of architecture : being a concise and popular account of the different styles of architecture prevailing in all ages and all countries
James Fergusson · 1855
Bromus racemosus L.
Artist not stated in the record · 11 Jun 1941
Architecture in Dharwar and Mysore
Thomas Biggs · 1860s
Vitis vulpina L.
Artist not stated in the record · 27 Aug 1940 to 29 Aug 1940
The Palaces of Nineveh and Persepolis Restored: An Essay on Ancient Assyrian and Persian Architecture
Artist not stated in the record · 1851
Ranunculus parviflorus L.
Artist not stated in the record · 17 Apr 1942
The Palaces of Nineveh and Persepolis Restored: An Essay on Ancient Assyrian and Persian Architecture
Artist not stated in the record · 1851
Myriophyllum sp.
Artist not stated in the record · 27 Aug 1940 and 29 Aug 1940
The House of Bijapur
Kamal Muhammad · ca. 1680
Galium pilosum Aiton
Artist not stated in the record · 27 Aug 1940 to 29 Aug 1940
Myriophyllum pinnatum (Walter) Britton, Stearns & Poggenb.
Artist not stated in the record · 11 Jun 1941
Fraxinus pennsylvanica Marshall
Artist not stated in the record · 11 Jun 1941
Viburnum prunifolium L.
Artist not stated in the record · 27 Aug 1940 to 29 Aug 1940
Eupatorium altissimum L.
Artist not stated in the record · 30 Aug 1940
Paspalum distichum L.
Artist not stated in the record · 27 Aug 1940 to 29 Aug 1940
Pellaea atropurpurea (L.) Link
Artist not stated in the record · 27 Aug 1940 to 29 Aug 1940
Commelina erecta var. angustifolia (Michx.) Fernald
Artist not stated in the record · 27 Aug 1940
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. 5 matched · 5 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.5 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 119023 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-09-06 06:59 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.