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. 11 shown for “John Meacham” — 42 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 13:21 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Bassoon in C
John Meacham · ca. 1811
Erythronium grandiflorum var. pallidum H. St. John
Artist not stated in the record · 10 May 1928
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Clarinet in B-flat
Horace Meacham · ca. 1825
American patrol march F.W. Meacham
Meacham, F. W · 1914
Chordeiles minor hesperis
Artist not stated in the record · 20 Jul 1915
Contopus sordidulus siccicola
Artist not stated in the record · 21 Jul 1915
Sidalcea campestris Greene
Artist not stated in the record · 17 Jul 1952
Sialia mexicana occidentalis
Artist not stated in the record · 28 Jul 1915
Troglodytes aedon parkmanii
Artist not stated in the record · 26 Jul 1915
Plethobasus cyphus
Artist not stated in the record · 17 Jul 1907
Microtus longicaudus longicaudus
Artist not stated in the record · 19 Jul 1915
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. 2 matched · 2 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.2 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 260536 matched · 40 examined · 25 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 2026-08-28 13:21 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.