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 “Nickel ore” — 45 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 13:53 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term..jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Sopranino Clarinet in G
Charles Mathieu · ca. 1890
Nickel ore
Artist not stated in the record
Tupu (pin)
Wari or Inca artist(s) · Before the 16th century
Nickel ore
Artist not stated in the record
Royal Presentation Sword
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
Eugenia pronyensis Guillaumin
Artist not stated in the record · 23 Dec 1947
Sword
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1450
Cobalt ore
Artist not stated in the record
Mother ape
Camillo Mariani · 1595–96
Nickel-cobalt ore
Artist not stated in the record
Folding camera owned by Laura Fitzpatrick
Artist not stated in the record · 1933-1942
Messenger Cap Badge, Number 1
Artist not stated in the record · 1930
RMS clerk chest badge, number 5968
Artist not stated in the record · 1899
RMS clerk chest badge, number 6692
C. G. Braxmar · 1899
RMS clerk chest badge, number 11127
Artist not stated in the record · 1899
RMS clerk chest badge, number 12046
American Railway Supply Company · 1899
RMS clerk chest badge, number 47020
N. C. Walter and Sons · 1899
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. 5 matched · 5 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.5 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 246914 matched · 40 examined · 24 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 2026-09-03 13:53 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.