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. 21 shown for “Lilly Martin Spencer” — 64 records examined, 36 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 01:05 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Young Husband: First Marketing
Lilly Martin Spencer · 1854
Benjamin Rush Spencer
Lilly Martin Spencer, born Exeter, England 1822-died New York City 1902 · 1848-1852
Conversation Piece
Lilly Martin Spencer · ca. 1851–52
We Both Must Fade (Mrs. Fithian)
Lilly Martin Spencer, born Exeter, England 1822-died New York City 1902 · 1869
Spencer
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1790
Aechmea longifolia (Rudge) L.B. Sm. & M.A. Spencer
Artist not stated in the record · Dec 1929
The Laundress
Honoré Daumier · 186[3?]
Aechmea longifolia (Rudge) L.B. Sm. & M.A. Spencer
Artist not stated in the record · 10 Jul 1970
St. Martin
Hans Baldung (called Hans Baldung Grien) · 16th century
Aechmea arenaria (Ule) L.B. Sm. & M.A. Spencer
Artist not stated in the record · 12 Sep 1948
Desk (bonheur du jour)
Martin Carlin · ca. 1770
Racinaea seemannii (Baker) M.A. Spencer & L.B. Sm.
Artist not stated in the record · 21 May 1986
Desk (bonheur du jour)
Martin Carlin · ca. 1769
Aechmea longifolia (Rudge) L.B. Sm. & M.A. Spencer
Artist not stated in the record · 28 Sep 1991
Cast Off Machiners Selling By Auction
John Doyle · February 16, 1835
Cercocarpus montanus var. minutiflorus (Abrams) F.L. Martin
Artist not stated in the record · 15 Mar 1916 to 18 Apr 1916
Jacket
Artist not stated in the record · 1880–85
Racinaea tetrantha var. miniata (André) M.A. Spencer & L.B. Sm.
Artist not stated in the record · 14 Feb 1945
Nightgown
Artist not stated in the record · 1886
Fan
Artist not stated in the record · 1890–94
Parasol
Artist not stated in the record · 1880s
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. 63 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 52653 matched · 40 examined · 31 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.9 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 01:05 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.