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. 9 shown for “Simon Willard” — 51 records examined, 42 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 16:56 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Clock
Simon Willard · 1825–30
"Balloon" Shelf Clock
Simon Willard · 1780–90
Wall Clock
Simon Willard · 1800–1810
Tall Clock
Benjamin Willard · 1772
Lyre Clock
John Sawin · 1822–28
Wall Clock
Aaron Willard · 1772–82
Banjo Clock
Aaron Willard Jr. · 1815–25
Title Page for "The Wonder Clock, or Four & Twenty Marvelous Tales, Being One for Each Hour of the Day"
Howard Pyle · 1887
The Spanish Singer
Edouard Manet · 1860
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. 11 matched · 11 examined · 2 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.9 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 15634 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 2026-08-27 16:56 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.