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-Lewis Brown” — 64 records examined, 36 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 18:24 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Mounted soldiers
John-Lewis Brown · 1878
President James Buchanan and his cabinet
McClees & Vannerson, active 1857 - 1860 · c. 1859
Mounted soldier
John-Lewis Brown · 19th century
Biography of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence, Vol. II
Artist not stated in the record · 1828
Chasseurs
John-Lewis Brown · 19th century
Schedule of the Estate of Mrs. Sarah B. Preston.
Artist not stated in the record · August 28, 1847
Woman on horseback
John-Lewis Brown · 19th century
Arctomys Lewisii, Aud. & Bach.
Audubon, John Woodhouse · 1847
A rider
John-Lewis Brown · 19th century
Model, Static, Curtiss HS-2L
Artist not stated in the record · 1962
L'Écurie
John-Lewis Brown · 19th century
Le Maquignon
John-Lewis Brown · 19th century
Cavalier
John-Lewis Brown · 19th century
Man on horseback
John-Lewis Brown · 19th century
Hussard
John-Lewis Brown · 19th century
Paysage
John-Lewis Brown · 19th century
Cour de Caserne
John-Lewis Brown · 19th 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. 60 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 208 matched · 40 examined · 35 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 2026-08-28 18:24 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.