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. 14 shown for “John Townsend Trowbridge” — 64 records examined, 36 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 06:52 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Our Young Folks, an Illustrated Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. III, Nos. I-XII
John Townsend Trowbridge · 1867
Androsace occidentalis var. arizonica (A. Gray) H. St. John
Artist not stated in the record · 2 Apr 1941
Tall clock
John Townsend · 1789
Peromyscus leucopus noveboracensis
Artist not stated in the record · 9 Jan 1938
Card table
John Townsend · ca. 1786
Drop-leaf dining table
John Townsend · 1756
Drop-leaf Pembroke Table
John Townsend · ca. 1795
Tankard
John Coney · ca. 1685
Chest of drawers
John Townsend · 1765
Side chair
John Townsend · 1800
Van Rensselaer Heir and Enslaved Youth
John Heaton · ca. 1730
Chest-on-Chest
Thomas Townsend · ca. 1772
Flounce
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1724
Border
Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century
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. 68 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 271341 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 06:52 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.