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. 14 shown for “Patent Model for Steering Steam Ships” — 42 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 20:18 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Sofa
John Henry Belter · 1850–60
Patent Model for Steering Steam Ships
Artist not stated in the record · 1853
Square Piano
Jonas Chickering · 1829
Steam Steering Apparatus, Patent Model
Artist not stated in the record · 1878
Patent Model of a Steam Steering Apparatus, 1860
Artist not stated in the record · 1860
Model, Vertical Steam Steering Engine, late 19th century
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century
Model, Horizontal Steam Steering Engine, late 19th century
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century
Model, Horizontal Steam Steering Engine, late 19th century
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century
Demonstration Model, American Steam Capstan Windlass, 1883
Artist not stated in the record · 1883
Ericsson Steam Engine, Patent Model
Artist not stated in the record · 1864
Ship Steering Apparatus
Artist not stated in the record · 1865
Three Rudder Steering Device, Patent Model
Artist not stated in the record · 1882
Steering Apparatus, Patent Model
Artist not stated in the record · 1877
Corliss’ Patent Model of a Steam Pump - 1876
Artist not stated in the record · 1877
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. 2 matched · 2 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.2 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 465603 matched · 40 examined · 28 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 2026-09-05 20:18 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.