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 “Samuel Alken” — 64 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 06:12 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Art of Scaling
Samuel Alken · 1785 (?)
Sphagnum imbricatum Hornsch. ex Russow
Artist not stated in the record · 5 Jul 1904
Benevolence
Samuel Alken · November 25, 1792
Achillea crithmifolia Waldst. & Kit.
Artist not stated in the record · 3 Aug 1900
Courtship in Low Life
Samuel Alken · December 15, 1785
Achillea crithmifolia Waldst. & Kit.
Artist not stated in the record · 26 Jun 1897
Side Box Sketches
Samuel Alken · June 5, 1786
Samuel Adams
Samuel Okey, active 1765 - 1780 · 1775
Studious Gluttons
Samuel Alken · October 1788
Samuel F. B. Morse
Abraham Bogardus, 29 Nov 1822 - 22 Mar 1908 · c. 1870
O Tempora, O Mores!
Samuel Alken · December 1799
Samuel F. B. Morse
John Sartain, 24 Oct 1808 - 25 Oct 1897 · 1862
Botheration
Samuel Alken · December 21, 1785
Samuel F. B. Morse
Jonas M. Edwards, c. 1824 - Feb 1847 · c. 1845
Botheration
Samuel Alken · Dec. 17, 1793
Samuel Putnam Avery
Charles Loring Elliott, 12 Oct 1812 - 25 Aug 1868 · 1863
O Tempora, O Mores!
Samuel Alken · 1799
Samuel Lewis Southard
Charles Fenderich, 1805 - 1887 · 1838
Art of Scaling
Samuel Alken · 1792
Samuel F. B. Morse
Mathew Brady Studio, active 1844 - 1894 · c. 1860
The Bachelor
Samuel Alken · December 28, 1787
Samuel F. B. Morse
Bobbett & Hooper Wood Engraving Co., active 1855 - 1870? · 1863
Benevolence
Samuel Alken · November 25, 1792
Samuel Pierpont Langley
Unidentified Artist · c. 1895
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. 43 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 24735 matched · 40 examined · 20 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 2026-09-01 06:12 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.