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 “Silas Selleck, active c. 1851 - 1876” — 40 records examined, 22 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-31 23:20 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Clarence King and the Field Party of 1864
Silas Selleck, active c. 1851 - 1876 · 1864
Portrait of William More Gabb (1839-1878)
Selleck, Silas Wright 1828-1885 · 1864
Silas Horton Stringham
Mathew Brady Studio, active 1844 - 1894 · c. 1862
Officers of Our Navy, 1861
Unidentified Artist · c. 1861-62
Silas Wright
E. B. & E. C. Kellogg Lithography Company, active c. 1842 - 1867 · 1844
Silas Wright
E. B. & E. C. Kellogg Lithography Company, active c. 1842 - 1867 · 1844
Silas Deane
Burnet Reading, active 1776 - 1822 · 1783
Officers of our Navy
John Chester Buttre, 10 Jun 1821 - 2 Dec 1893 · 1861
Silas Wright
Thomas Doney, active mid 19th century · 1846
Portrait of George Tsaroff (1858-1880)
Selleck & Fisher · 1872
Pontiac, Illinois Owney tag
Artist not stated in the record · 1888-1897
John Silas Reed
Pirie MacDonald, 27 Jan 1867 - 22 Apr 1942 · c. 1916
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. The archive returned no records for this term.0 matched - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1027951 matched · 40 examined · 22 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 2026-08-31 23:20 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.