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. 13 shown for “Peter Pelham” — 47 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 22:11 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Cottonus Matheris (Cotton Mather)
Peter Pelham · 1728
Cotton Mather
Peter Pelham, 1697 - 1751 · 1728 (c. 1860 restrike)
William Shirley, Governor of Massachusetts
Peter Pelham · 1747
William Shirley
Peter Pelham, 1697 - 1751 · 1747
Sir William Pepperrell
Peter Pelham · 1747
Cottonus Matherus
Peter Pelham, born London, England 1697-died Boston, MA 1751 · 1728, restrike 20th century
The Lamentation
Domenichino (Domenico Zampieri) · 1603
Cotton Mather
Peter Pelham, 1697 - 1751 · 1728
The Coronation of the Virgin
Annibale Carracci · after 1595
Chondrus crispus Stackh.
Artist not stated in the record · 15 Nov 1975
Pair of Four-Barreled Turnover Percussion Pistols of Henry Pelham Fiennes Pelham-Clinton, 4th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne (1785–1851), with Pair of Box-Lock Turn-Off Pocket Pistols, Case, and Accessories
James Purdey the Elder · 1831
Callithamnion tetragonum (With.) S.F. Gray
Artist not stated in the record · 15 Nov 1975
Interior of the Sint-Bavokerk, Haarlem
Job Adriaensz Berckheyde · ca. 1676
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. 7 matched · 7 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.7 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 30399 matched · 40 examined · 34 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.6 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-26 22:11 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.