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. 24 shown for “Photograph of Rev. D. A. Townsend and Dr. A. M. Townsend standing on front steps” — 64 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 08:08 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Study for "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte"
Georges Seurat · 1884
Photograph of Rev. D. A. Townsend and Dr. A. M. Townsend standing on front steps
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1907
Marble statue of a wounded warrior
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 138–181 CE
Carte-de-visite of Mr. and Mrs. Townsend
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870
A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?)
Edgar Degas · 1865
Print of Rev. A. M. Townsend
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1907
Portrait of a Man, Possibly a Self-Portrait
Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) · ca. 1635
Photograph of Dr. A. M. Townsend near a ledge
Artist not stated in the record · most likely 1909
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836)
Jacques Louis David · 1788
Photograph of Dr. A. M. Townsend next to a statue
Artist not stated in the record · most likely 1909
Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)
Georges Seurat · 1887–88
Envelope addressed to Rev. and Mrs. D. A. Townsend
Unidentified · April 10, 1925
The Rehearsal of the Ballet Onstage
Edgar Degas · ca. 1874
Photograph of Dr. A. M. Townsend next to a monument
Artist not stated in the record · most likely 1909
The Penitence of Saint Jerome
Joachim Patinir · ca. 1515
Photograph of Dr. A. M. Townsend on a ship
Artist not stated in the record · most likely 1909
The Dance Class
Edgar Degas · 1874
Photograph of Dr. A. M. Townsend
Artist not stated in the record · 1925
Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560)
Hans Holbein the Younger · 1532
Negative of Dr. A. M. Townsend
Artist not stated in the record · 1925
Joan of Arc
Jules Bastien-Lepage · 1879
Print of Rev. C. E. Miller, D. D.
Unidentified · July 1909
The Triumph of Fame; (reverse) Impresa of the Medici Family and Arms of the Medici and Tornabuoni Families
Giovanni di ser Giovanni Guidi (called Scheggia) · ca. 1449
Photographic print of a young girl standing on a chair
Artist not stated in the record · mid 1890s-1910
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. 76 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 4976731 matched · 40 examined · 15 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 2026-08-28 08:08 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.