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. 12 shown for “Joseph Willson (or Wilson), 1825 - 8 Sep 1857” — 40 records examined, 22 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 04:10 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
James Buchanan
Salathiel Ellis, c. 1803 - 1879 · 1857 (struck 1857-58)
Millard Fillmore
Joseph Willson (or Wilson), 1825 - 8 Sep 1857 · 1850 (struck 1850-51)
Charles Wilson Peale's autograph
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1810-20
Henry Laurens
John B. Neagle, 4 Nov 1796 - 17 Sep 1865 · 1816
In Church
Henry Wolf, born Eckwersheim, Alsace 1852-died New York City 1916 · 1909
First Colored Senator and Representatives
Currier & Ives Lithography Company, active 1857 - 1907 · 1872
John Witherspoon
James Barton Longacre, 11 Aug 1794 - 1 Jan 1869 · c. 1825
Cryptocarya laevigata Elmer, nom illeg., non Blume (1825)
Artist not stated in the record · 10 Jun 1957
James Wilson
James Barton Longacre, 11 Aug 1794 - 1 Jan 1869 · c. 1825
Lithospermum macromeria Cohen
Artist not stated in the record · 25 Jul 1973
Amerigo Vespucci
Charles Willson Peale, 15 Apr 1741 - 22 Feb 1827 · 1816
Zanthoxylum liebmannianum (Engl.) P. Wilson
Artist not stated in the record · 30 Aug 1905 to 8 Sep 1905
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. The archive returned no records for this term.0 matched - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 2663750 matched · 40 examined · 22 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 2026-09-04 04:10 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.