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. 17 shown for “Samuel Brookes” — 64 records examined, 39 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 04:02 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
An introduction to the study of conchology : including observations on the Linnæan genera, and the arrangement of M. Lamarck, a glossary, and a table of English names / by Samuel Brookes
Samuel Brookes · 1815
George Washington
J. Manly, 1789 - 1793 · 19th-century restrike
Dwarf tall clock
Samuel Mulliken II · ca. 1780
Roger B. Taney
Samuel Sartain, 1830 - 1906 · 1857
Sr. Samuel House
Thomas Rowlandson · [1780] reissued 1786–91
Brook and Trees
Samuel Finley Breese Morse, American 1791-1872 · January 24, 1844
Sr. Samuel House
Thomas Rowlandson · [1780] reissued 1786–91
Aristida purpurea Nutt.
Artist not stated in the record · 5 Nov 1891
Tynemouth Castle, Northumberland
Samuel Buck · 1728
Van Wyck Brooks
John Butler Yeats, 16 Mar 1839 - 3 Feb 1922 · 1909
The Bachelor
Samuel Alken · December 28, 1787
The Bodhisattva Jizō
Intan · 1291
On the Thames at Hammersmith
John Varley · ca. 1836
Study of a man gazing down
George Richmond · 1840–80
The Story of Samuel
Artist not stated in the record · mid-17th century
Study of a tree
George Richmond · possibly 1848
The Meeting
Pietro Longhi (Pietro Falca) · 1746
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. 34 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 53223 matched · 40 examined · 35 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.5 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 04:02 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.