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 H. Lawson, Medal of Honor Recipient” — 64 records examined, 31 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 23:47 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836)
Jacques Louis David · 1788
John H. Lawson, Medal of Honor Recipient
Artist not stated in the record
The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry
The Limbourg Brothers · 1405–1408/1409
John F. Mackie, Medal of Honor Recipient
Artist not stated in the record
Oedipus and the Sphinx
Gustave Moreau · 1864
James Miller, Medal of Honor Recipient
Artist not stated in the record
The Harvesters
Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565
Lewis C. Shepard, Medal of Honor Recipient
Artist not stated in the record
The Burning of Sodom (formerly "The Destruction of Sodom")
Camille Corot · 1843 and 1857
Daniel D. Stevens, Medal of Honor Recipient
Artist not stated in the record
Joan of Arc
Jules Bastien-Lepage · 1879
Hugh Molloy, Medal of Honor Recipient
Artist not stated in the record
Aristotle with a Bust of Homer
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1653
William McKnight, Medal of Honor Recipient
Artist not stated in the record
Insignia of the Order of the Precious Crown, Paulownia
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century
William D. Newland, Medal of Honor Recipient
Artist not stated in the record
Francesco d'Este (born ca. 1429, died after 1486)
Rogier van der Weyden · ca. 1460
Cornelius Cronin, Medal of Honor Recipient
Artist not stated in the record
Woman with a Parrot
Gustave Courbet · 1866
Bartholemew Diggins, Medal of Honor Recipient
Artist not stated in the record
Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456)
Hans Memling · ca. 1470
William R. Pelham, Medal of Honor Recipient
Artist not stated in the record
Gold-inlaid Colt Model 1851 Navy Revolver (serial no. 20133), with Case and Accessories
Samuel Colt · ca. 1853
Medal of Honor Citation issued for First Lieutenant John E. Warren, Jr.
Artist not stated in the record · August 6 1970
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. 31 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 3526028 matched · 40 examined · 27 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 2026-09-05 23:47 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.