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 M. Sommerville” — 64 records examined, 46 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 23:25 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Ocean Life
James M. Sommerville
Ursus americanus
Artist not stated in the record · 1916
Saint James the Greater
Gil de Siloe · 1489–93
Bothriochloa ischaemum (L.) Keng
Artist not stated in the record · 19 Apr 1985
James Stuart (1612–1655), Duke of Richmond and Lennox
Anthony van Dyck · ca. 1633–35
Senecio ampullaceus Hook.
Artist not stated in the record · 26 Apr 1917
Presentation Smallsword with Scabbard
James Morisset · hallmarked for 1797–98
Polytrichastrum ohioense (Renauld & Cardot) G.L. Sm
Artist not stated in the record · 26 Mar 1960
Transverse Flute in D-flat
Artist not stated in the record · 1760–90
James M. Edmunds
L. Wieser, active c. 1881 · c. 1881
Saint James the Great
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1231
Saint James the Greater
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1450–75
Saint James the Lesser
Artist not stated in the record · 13th century
Rapier of Ambrogio Spinola (1569–1630) with Scabbard Chape
M. I. F. · ca. 1600
Armor of Sir James Scudamore (1558–1619)
Jacob Halder · ca. 1595–96; restored and completed, 1915
Presentation Smallsword with Scabbard of Captain W. E. Cracraft
James Morisset · hallmarked for 1797–98
Nécessaire
James Cox · ca. 1770–72
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. 2593 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. 1279280 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 2026-08-28 23:25 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.