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 Rubens Smith, 1775 - 1849” — 54 records examined, 15 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 14:19 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Cohoes Falls on Mohawk River, New York
John Rubens Smith
John Ross
John Rubens Smith, 1775 - 1849 · 1841
Gabriel V. Ludlow
John Rubens Smith · 1816
Thomas Addis Emmet
John Rubens Smith, 1775 - 1849 · 1831
Scene (from McGuire Scrapbook)
John Rubens Smith · 1834
General Benjamin Lincoln
John Rubens Smith, 1775 - 1849 · 1811
Allan Melville
John Rubens Smith · 1810
Theodore Sedgwick
John Rubens Smith, 1775 - 1849 · 1813
View Near Jessup's Landing (No. 3 of The Hudson River Portfolio)
John Rubens Smith · 1821–22
Francis, Duke of Bedford
Samuel William Reynolds, British, 1773–1835 · 1802
Troy from Mount Ida (No. 11 of The Hudson River Portfolio)
John Rubens Smith · 1821–22
Picea rubens Sarg.
Artist not stated in the record · 5 Aug 1882
Hadley's Falls (No. 5 of The Hudson River Portfolio)
John Rubens Smith · 1821–22
Picea rubens Sarg.
Artist not stated in the record · 8 Sep 1881
View from Fishkill Looking To West-Point (No. 15 of The Hudson River Portfolio)
John Rubens Smith · 1825
Miconia rubens (Sw.) Naudin
Artist not stated in the record · 31 Dec 1957
Picturesque Views/ Nr Jessups Landing/ Hudson River
James and Ralph Clews · ca. 1821–ca. 1834
Pochanhontas Saving the Life of Capt John Smith
Robinson, Henry R. · ca 1840
Picturesque Views/ Troy from Mount Ida/ Hudson River
James and Ralph Clews · ca. 1821–ca. 1834
Phycodrys rubens (L.) Batters
Artist not stated in the record · 1876 to 1883
The Glorification of the Eucharist
Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1630–32
Bromus rubens L.
Artist not stated in the record · 6 Apr 1966
Shop and Warehouse of Duncan Phyfe, 168–172 Fulton Street, New York City
John Rubens Smith · 1817–20
Bromus rubens L.
Artist not stated in the record · 28 Apr 1944
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. 14 matched · 14 examined · 0 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. 395861 matched · 40 examined · 15 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 2026-09-02 14:19 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.