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. 24 shown for “John Adams” — 64 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 18:59 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Percussion Longrifle
John Settel · ca. 1835–1840
John Adams Whipple
Francis D'Avignon, 29 Oct 1813 - c. 1871 · 1851
John Adams
James Sharples · ca.1796
John Adams
John Scoles, 1793 - 1844? · c. 1801
![[Cornelius Conway Felton with His Hat and Coat], by John Adams Whipple](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDT2537.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[Cornelius Conway Felton with His Hat and Coat]
John Adams Whipple · early 1850s
John Adams
Artist not stated in the record · 1804
John Quincy Adams Ward
Henry Augustus Loop · 1863
John Adams
Henry H. Houston, active 1796 - c.1798 · 1797
William Tilden Blodgett
John Quincy Adams Ward · 1865
John Adams
Jean Baptiste Mauzaisse, 1784 - 1844 · 1827
Adam
Auguste Rodin · modeled 1880 or 1881, cast 1910
John Adams
Albert Newsam, 20 May 1809 - 20 Nov 1864 · 1846
The Freedman
John Quincy Adams Ward · 1863, cast 1891
John Adams
Jacques Reich, 10 Aug 1852 - 8 Jul 1923 · c. 1899-1920
John Adams
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin · 1800–1801
John Adams
Unidentified Artist · c. 1820
Abigail Smith Adams
James Sharples · ca.1796
John Adams
Cornelius Tiebout, 1777 - 1832 · c. 1800
Mrs. John Adams Conant
William Dunlap · 1829
John Adams
George Graham, active 1786 - 1813 · c. 1798
John Adams Conant
William Dunlap · 1829
John Adams Dix
Meade Brothers Studio, active c. 1840 - c. 1869 · c. 1861
Token of John Adams
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1876
John Adams
Unidentified Artist · c. 1815
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. 862 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 272661 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 2026-09-01 18:59 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.