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 “James Herring” — 64 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 02:48 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 National Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Americans, Vol. I
James Herring · 1834
Henry Lee
James Herring, 12 Jan 1794 - 8 Oct 1867 · c. 1834
James Kent
Asher Brown Durand · 1834
James Monroe
James Herring, 12 Jan 1794 - 8 Oct 1867 · c. 1834
The National Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Americans, Vol. IV
James Barton Longacre · 1839
Untitled (Two Kittens)
Herring, James · ca 1830
The National Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Americans, Vol. II
James Barton Longacre · 1835
Jacob Jennings Brown
Asher Brown Durand, 21 Aug 1796 - 17 Sep 1886 · 1834
Stephen Decatur
Asher Brown Durand · 1835
Study for "Portrait of Mrs. James Robb and her Three Children," Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA
Thomas Sully, 1783 – 1872 · 1844
Jacob Brown
Asher Brown Durand · 1834
Noah Webster
James Herring, 12 Jan 1794 - 8 Oct 1867 · 1833
David Hosack, M.D., F.R.S.
Asher Brown Durand · 1834
Snipes
Herring, James · 1829
William Gaston
Asher Brown Durand · 1834
Woodcocks
Herring, James · 1829
The National Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Americans, Vol. III
James Barton Longacre · 1836
Colonel Crockett
Stuart, C. · 1839
Charles Carrol of Carrolton
Asher Brown Durand · ca. 1835
Untitled (Two Puppies)
Herring, James · ca 1830
Catherine Maria Sedgwick
Asher Brown Durand · 1832
Carte-de-visite of Sojourner Truth
Artist not stated in the record · 1863
Catherine Maria Sedgwick
Asher Brown Durand · 1832
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. 35 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 138423 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 02:48 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.