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 “Joseph H. Merriam” — 64 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 22:51 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Benjamin Franklin
Joseph H. Merriam · 1859
Sorex pribilofensis Merriam, 1895
Artist not stated in the record · 29 Jul 1891
Washington and Franklin
Joseph H. Merriam
Antrozous pallidus pacificus Merriam, 1897
Artist not stated in the record · 28 Jun 1891
Benjamin Franklin
Joseph H. Merriam · 1859
Arctostaphylos nissenana Merriam
Artist not stated in the record · 9 Aug 1907
Washington and Franklin
Joseph H. Merriam · ca. 1862
Arctostaphylos mewukka Merriam
Artist not stated in the record · 5 Nov 1911
Centennial of Washington's Inauguration, 1889
Joseph H. Merriam · 1889
Arctostaphylos mewukka Merriam
Artist not stated in the record · 5 Nov 1911
Washington's Tomb
Joseph H. Merriam · early 1860s
Vaccinium arbuscula (A. Gray) Merriam
Artist not stated in the record · May 1899 to Aug 1899
Joseph
Artist not stated in the record · second half 18th century
Arctostaphylos mewukka Merriam
Artist not stated in the record · 5 Oct 1907
L'Arlésienne: Madame Joseph-Michel Ginoux (Marie Julien, 1848–1911)
Vincent van Gogh · 1888–89
Arctostaphylos mewukka Merriam
Artist not stated in the record · 18 Oct 1910
The Rebuke of Adam and Eve
Charles Joseph Natoire · 1740
Arctostaphylos mewukka Merriam
Artist not stated in the record · Oct 1906
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)
Joseph Siffred Duplessis · 1778
Microtus oeconomus yakutatensis
Artist not stated in the record · 19 Jun 1899
Venice, from the Porch of Madonna della Salute
Joseph Mallord William Turner · ca. 1835
Arctocephalus townsendi Merriam, 1897
Artist not stated in the record · 22 May 1892
Whalers
Joseph Mallord William Turner · ca. 1845
Microtus oeconomus unalascensis
Artist not stated in the record · 13 Aug 1891
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. 4112 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. 963909 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 22:51 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.