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 Johnson” — 64 records examined, 42 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 17:25 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Pitcher
Christopher Dresser · ca. 1881
James Weldon Johnson
Winold Reiss, 16 Sep 1886 - 29 Aug 1953 · 1925
James Thomas Fields
Southworth and Hawes · 1861
James Weldon Johnson
Winold Reiss, 16 Sep 1886 - 29 Aug 1953 · c. 1920
James Freeman Clarke
Southworth and Hawes · ca. 1850
James Johnson
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1818
James O. Owens
John Wood Dodge · 1832
James Weldon Johnson
Carlo de Fornaro, 1871 - 1949 · 1911
Colonel James Elliott McPherson
Charles Fraser · 1819
James Weldon Johnson
Doris Ulmann, 29 May 1882 - 28 Aug 1934 · c. 1925
Les Gourmands
Anonymous, British, late 18th century · 1780–1820
Nancy Kellogg
James Whitehorne · 1838
Mary Kellogg
James Whitehorne · ca. 1838
Known Characters in a Chop House
Anonymous, British, 19th century · 1800–1820
Mrs. James Thomas Fields (Annie Adams)
Southworth and Hawes · 1861
Sailing Among the Hebrides (Picturesque Beauties of Boswell, Part the Second)
Thomas Rowlandson · June 10, 1786
The Contest at Auckinleck (Picturesque Beauties of Boswell, Part the Second)
Thomas Rowlandson · June 10, 1786
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. 302 matched · 24 examined · 7 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. 146808 matched · 40 examined · 35 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.5 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-06 17:25 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.