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. 18 shown for “Richard Morrell Staigg” — 46 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 05:23 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Ann King
Richard Morrell Staigg
Mrs. Francis Schroeder (Caroline Seaton)
Richard Morell Staigg, born Leeds, England 1817-died Newport, RI 1881 · ca. 1849
Mrs. Christopher Grant Perry (Frances Sargeant)
Richard Morrell Staigg · ca. 1840
Francis Schroeder
Richard Morell Staigg, born Leeds, England 1817-died Newport, RI 1881 · ca. 1849
George Henry Loring
Richard Morrell Staigg · 1849
George W. Morrell
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70
Mrs. George Henry Loring (Amalia Heredia)
Richard Morrell Staigg · 1849
Polypodium nigrescens Blume
Artist not stated in the record · 9 Apr 1953
Christopher Grant Perry
Richard Morrell Staigg · 1840
New York Weekly Messenger Vol. 2 No. 22
Artist not stated in the record · December 19, 1832
Washington Allston
Richard Morrell Staigg · 1841
Digitalis grandiflora Mill.
Artist not stated in the record · 1896
Piriqueta cistoides subsp. caroliniana (Walter) Arbo
Artist not stated in the record · 188
Piriqueta cistoides subsp. caroliniana (Walter) Arbo
Artist not stated in the record · 1886
Digitalis ambigua Murray
Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1896
Vermivora ruficapilla
Artist not stated in the record · 5 Jun 1893
Corvus brachyrhynchos
Artist not stated in the record · 26 Apr 1894
Parus atricapillus
Artist not stated in the record · 24 May 1896
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. 6 matched · 6 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.6 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 64114 matched · 40 examined · 7 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 2026-09-06 05:23 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.