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. 22 shown for “Orville Gibson” — 55 records examined, 31 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 23:43 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Mandolin
Orville Gibson · 1898
William Orville Douglas
Oscar White, born 1921 · c. 1940
Style J Mandobass (serial no. 15729)
Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Manufacturing Co., Ltd. · 1913
The National Plumbeotype Gallery - Orville Dewey
John Plumbe, Jr., 13 Jul 1809 - 28 May 1857 · 1847
L-4 Archtop Guitar (serial no.
Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Manufacturing Co., Ltd. · ca. 1918
Orville H. Browning
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70
L-3 Archtop Guitar (serial no. 32544)
Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Manufacturing Co., Ltd. · 1917
Orville H. Browning
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70
Style O Artist Model Archtop Guitar (serial no. 51670)
Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Manufacturing Co., Ltd. · 1919
Convention Badge
Artist not stated in the record · 1928
Style U Harp Guitar (serial no 26084)
Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Manufacturing Co., Ltd. · 1917
Pygmaepterys lourdesae
Artist not stated in the record · 22 Feb 1971
A-4 Mandolin (serial no. 39051)
Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Manufacturing Co., Ltd. · 1917
Pygmaepterys juanitae
Artist not stated in the record · 1967
K-4 Artist Model Mandocello (serial no. 26084)
Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Manufacturing Co., Ltd. · 1916
Thelecythara dominguezi
Artist not stated in the record · 22 Feb 1971
K-2 Mandocello (serial no. 25254)
Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Manufacturing Co., Ltd. · 1916
Charles Dana Gibson
William James Glackens, 13 Mar 1870 - 22 May 1938 · c. 1905
H-4 Artist Model Mandola (serial no. 49642)
Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Manufacturing Co., Ltd. · 1919
Agave murpheyi F. Gibson
Artist not stated in the record · 1935
H-2 Mandola (serial no. 34155)
Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Manufacturing Co., Ltd. · 1917
F-2 Mandolin (serial no. 229224)
Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Manufacturing Co., Ltd. · 1916
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. 15 matched · 15 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. 4400 matched · 40 examined · 30 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.10 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-05 23:43 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.