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. 12 shown for “Sewing machine” — 64 records examined, 49 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 09:59 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.![Catalogue of Domestic Fashions [trade catalogue], by Domestic Sewing Machine Company](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fdp%2Fweb-large%2FDP-19955-001.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Catalogue of Domestic Fashions [trade catalogue]
Domestic Sewing Machine Company · Summer 1883
Comic Valentine original illustration: Sewing Machine
Anonymous · ca. 1860
Study for "The Story of a Seamstress": Sewing Machine
Umberto Boccioni · 1908
Picture of Sights in Yokohama: Woman with a Ringer, Lamp Post, a Steamboat at Full Sail and a Woman with a Sewing Machine
Utagawa Yoshikazu · 11th month, 1860
Ladies Sewing (Kijo saihō no zu)
Adachi Ginkō · September 3rd, 1887
Comic Valentine (woman at sewing machine)
Anonymous · ca. 1850
Court Ladies Sewing Western Clothing (Jokan yōfuku saihō no zu)
Yōshū (Hashimoto) Chikanobu · August 23rd, 1887
![[Merchants' Carnival Portrait: L.D. Alward Standard Sewing Machine, Clarence, Iowa], by William P. Hurd](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDP-43423-417.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[Merchants' Carnival Portrait: L.D. Alward Standard Sewing Machine, Clarence, Iowa]
William P. Hurd · 1880s–1890s
Boots
Artist not stated in the record · 1860–69
Shirt
Elizabeth Wild Hitchings · 1816–17
Quilt, Album pattern
First Reform Churches of Fishkill and Hopewell · ca. 1855–60
Boots
Artist not stated in the record · 1865–75
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. 44 matched · 24 examined · 9 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. 16179 matched · 40 examined · 40 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.0 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 09:59 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.