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. 15 shown for “Pacific Mills” — 48 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 20:42 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Samples
Pacific Mills · 1856
Textile
Pacific Mills · 1876
Marble Statue Group of the Three Graces
Artist not stated in the record · 2nd century CE
Mazzaella leptorhynchos (J. Agardh) Leister
Artist not stated in the record · 10 Jul 1965
The Glorification of the Eucharist
Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1630–32
Scytonema hofmannii C. Agardh ex Bornet & Flahault
Artist not stated in the record · 14 Jul 1900
Adenophorus tamariscinus Hook. & Grev. var. tamariscinus
Artist not stated in the record · 1838 to 1842
Echinodorus berteroi (Spreng.) Fassett
Artist not stated in the record · 10 Aug 1952
Plantago patagonica Jacq.
Artist not stated in the record · 29 May 1925
Meliosma pinnata Maxim.
Artist not stated in the record · 13 Sep 1957
Rhynchospora sclerioides Hook. & Arn.
Artist not stated in the record
Elaeocarpus ptilanthus Schltr.
Artist not stated in the record · 19 Sep 1957
Schizomeria iliciana (Ridl.) Schltr.
Artist not stated in the record · 12 Sep 1957
Adenophorus hymenophylloides (Kaulf.) Hook. & Grev.
Artist not stated in the record · 1838 to 1842
Lepidosperma tuberculatum Nees
Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1902
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. 8 matched · 8 examined · 5 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.3 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 650819 matched · 40 examined · 27 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 2026-09-02 20:42 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.