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 “Ship Steering Apparatus” — 47 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 20:18 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Tomb chapel of Raemkai: North wall of the entrance corridor
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2446–2389 BCE
Ship Steering Apparatus
Artist not stated in the record · 1865
Tomb chapel of Raemkai: South wall of the entrance corridor
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2446–2389 BCE
Patent Model for Steering Steam Ships
Artist not stated in the record · 1853
Terracotta jug
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 750–600 BCE
Steam Steering Apparatus, Patent Model
Artist not stated in the record · 1878
Ceremonial Textile (Tampan)
Lampung artist · 19th century
Steering Apparatus, Patent Model
Artist not stated in the record · 1877
The Clipper Yacht "America" – Built by Mr. George Steers of New York for John C. Stevens, Esq. and Associates of the New York Yacht Club
Frances Flora Bond Palmer · ca. 1851–52
Patent Model of a Steam Steering Apparatus, 1860
Artist not stated in the record · 1860
The Clipper Yacht "America," Winner of the Royal Yacht Squadron Cup, Value £100 in the Great Match for All Nations at Cowes, August 22nd, and of a Match with the Titania for £100, August 28, 1851
Nathaniel Currier · 1851
Model, Vertical Steam Steering Engine, late 19th century
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century
Model, Horizontal Steam Steering Engine, late 19th century
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century
Model, Horizontal Steam Steering Engine, late 19th century
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century
Three Rudder Steering Device, Patent Model
Artist not stated in the record · 1882
Cornelius Cronin, Medal of Honor Recipient
Artist not stated in the record
Geared Steering Wheel, Patent Model
Artist not stated in the record · ca 1875
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. 7 matched · 7 examined · 1 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. 13647 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-05 20:18 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.