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 Varick Stout, 1809 - 1860” — 44 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 20:25 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Head of a Girl (from McGuire Scrapbook)
James Varick Stout · 1841
Fanny Elssler
James Varick Stout, 1809 - 1860 · c. 1841
Progressive Democracy – Prospect of a Smash Up
Louis Maurer · 1860
Hon. Abraham Lincoln, Born in Kentucky, February 12, 1809, from Harper's Weekly, November 10, 1860
Winslow Homer, born Boston, MA 1836-died Prout's Neck, ME 1910 · 1860
Storming the Castle – "Old "Abe" on Guard
Currier & Ives · 1860
Watch-Tower, Corner of Spring and Varick Streets, New York, from Harper's Weekly, February 28, 1874
Winslow Homer, born Boston, MA 1836-died Prout's Neck, ME 1910 · 1874
The National Game. Three "Outs" and One "Run" – Abraham Winning the Ball
Louis Maurer · 1860
Indian Peace Medal, James Madison, United States, 1809
United States Mint · 1814
Daniel Clark
McClees & Vannerson, active 1857 - 1860 · c. 1859
Charles Willson Peale Self-Portrait
Charles Willson Peale, 15 Apr 1741 - 22 Feb 1827 · c. 1791
Watch-tower, Corner of Spring and Varick Streets, New York
Artist not stated in the record · February 28, 1874
Albert Newsam
James Queen, 1824 - 1877 · 1868
Globicephala melas melas (Traill, 1809)
Artist not stated in the record · -- -- 18--
Globicephala melas melas (Traill, 1809)
Artist not stated in the record · -- -- 18--
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. 4 matched · 4 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.4 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 227655 matched · 40 examined · 17 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 2026-09-04 20:25 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.