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. 13 shown for “John Middleton” — 50 records examined, 37 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 01:28 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Clearing with a lumber mill
John Middleton · 1847 (?)
John Middleton Clayton
David Acheson Woodward, 1823 - 1909 · 1843
A Stream near Clovelly, North Devon
John Middleton · 1850
Mrs. John Middleton (Mary Burroughs)
Henry Brintnell Bounetheau, born Charleston, SC 1797-died Charleston, SC 1877 · ca. 1840
![[Edward Middleton Barry], by John and Charles Watkins](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDP-386-011.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[Edward Middleton Barry]
John and Charles Watkins · 1860s
Zachary Taylor and his Cabinet
Francis D'Avignon, 29 Oct 1813 - c. 1871 · 1849
Design for the Façade of a Theater (Perspective)
Charles Middleton · late 18th–early 19th century
President Taylor and His Cabinet
D'Avignon & Hoffmann · 1849
Portrait of a Woman
Frans Hals · ca. 1650, reworked probably 18th century
Lincoln with Major Union Figures
Henry S. Sadd, c. 1811 - 24 Nov 1893 · c. 1865
Chalcedony scaraboid
Epimenes · ca. 500 BCE
Union
Henry S. Sadd, c. 1811 - 24 Nov 1893 · 1852
The Goddess Bhairavi Devi with Shiva
Payag · ca. 1630–35
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. 10 matched · 10 examined · 3 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.7 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 261679 matched · 40 examined · 34 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.6 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 01:28 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.