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. 17 shown for “John Moran, born Bolton, England 1831-died 1903” — 29 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 21:54 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Tropical Scenery, Street, Chipigana
John Moran · 1871
View of River with Bridge
John Moran, born Bolton, England 1831-died 1903 · ca. 1860s
Tropical Scenery, The Terminus of the Proposed Canal, Limon Bay
John Moran · 1871
Tacony Creek, Magnolia Poplar
John Moran, born Bolton, England 1831-died 1903 · ca. 1860s
Tropical Scenery, View of Limon Bay
John Moran · 1871
Tropical Scenery: The Terminus of the Proposed Canal, Limon Bay (Darien Expedition)
John Moran, born Bolton, England 1831-died 1903 · 1871
Tropical Scenery, Darien Harbor - Looking South
John Moran · 1871
Valley of Cuernavaca
Thomas Moran, born Bolton, England 1837-died Santa Barbara, CA 1926 · 1903
Tropical Scenery, Cathedral, Cartagena
John Moran · 1871
The Devil's Tower from Johnstons
Thomas Moran, born Bolton, England 1837-died Santa Barbara, CA 1926 · 1893
Tropical Scenery, Landing, Chipigana
John Moran · 1871
Tropical Scenery, Tropical Forest
John Moran · 1871
Tropical Scenery, View Near Chipigana
John Moran · 1871
Tropical Scenery, Natural Arch, Cupica Bay
John Moran · 1871
Tropical Scenery, Turbo Village
John Moran · 1871
Tropical Scenery, The Brook El Bano, Chipigana
John Moran · 1871
Tropical Scenery, Darien Harbor, Chipigana
John Moran · 1871
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. 29 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 5 matched · 5 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.5 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 21:54 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.