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. 23 shown for “N. Smith and Company” — 64 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 12:52 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Toast rack
N. Smith and Company · ca. 1784
Lever pouch padlock
Smith & Egge Company · Date on Shackle: 1890
Merry Company on a Terrace
Jan Steen · ca. 1670
Lever pouch padlock
Smith & Egge Company · Date on Shackle: 1881
Smith and Wesson .32 Caliber Single-Action Revolver, serial no. 17156
Smith & Wesson · 1881–1902
Lever pouch padlock
Smith & Egge Company · Date on Shackle: 1886
Chandelier
Henry N. Hooper and Company · ca. 1850
Lever pouch padlock
Smith & Egge Company · 1882
Smith & Wesson .44 Double-Action Frontier Model Revolver decorated by Tiffany & Co. (serial no. 8401), with Case and Cleaning Rod
Smith & Wesson · ca. 1893
Lever pouch padlock
Smith & Egge Company · 1888
Smith and Wesson .44 New Model No. 3 Single-Action Revolver, serial no. 25120
Smith & Wesson · ca. 1888
Lever pouch padlock
Smith & Egge Company · 1886
Cruet stand
Lewis and Smith · ca. 1805–11
Lever pouch padlock
Smith & Egge Company · 1883
Winchester Model 1886 Takedown Rifle decorated by Tiffany & Co. (serial no. 120528)
Winchester Repeating Arms Company · 1899–1900
Insurance policy issued to Arthur S. Smith
Artist not stated in the record · 1918
Double-Barreled Flintlock Shotgun with Exchangeable Percussion Locks and Barrels
Nicolas Noël Boutet · ca. 1818–20; exchangeable percussion locks and barrels, dated 1860
Lever pouch padlock
Smith & Egge Company · 1882
Bessie Springs Smith White (Mrs. Stanford White)
Augustus Saint-Gaudens · 1884, carved by 1888
Rotary registry padlock
Smith & Egge Company · 1881
Flora
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · ca. 1654
Rotary registry padlock
Smith & Egge Company · 1884
Coffee Pot on Stand (part of a service)
Digby Scott · 1805
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. 9704 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. 1905178 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 12:52 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.