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. 24 shown for “Sine, Alpheus C.” — 60 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 15:22 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Square Piano
Alpheus Babcock · 1822–24
Patent Model of a Numbering and Paging Machine
Sine, Alpheus C. · ca 1871
Pipe Organ
Thomas Appleton · 1830
Urochloa lata (Schumach.) C. E. Hubb.
Artist not stated in the record · 23 Sep 1995
Plate 46: Theatrical agent, from 'Caricaturana,' published in Les Robert Macaires
Honoré Daumier · 1838
Loudetia hordeiformis (Stapf) C. E. Hubb.
Artist not stated in the record · 22 Sep 1995
Midas Washing at the Source of the Pactolus
Nicolas Poussin · ca. 1627
Loudetia hordeiformis (Stapf) C. E. Hubb.
Artist not stated in the record · 29 Sep 1995
Medea Rejuvenating Aeson
Corrado Giaquinto · ca. 1760
Mentha canadensis L.
Artist not stated in the record · 2 Aug 1923
Square Piano
Babcock, Appleton and Babcock · 1814
Draba eriopoda Turcz. ex Ledeb.
Artist not stated in the record · 23 Jul 1923
William Shakespeare
Charles William Sherborn
Arenaria cerastiiformis F.N. Williams
Artist not stated in the record · 26 Jul 1923
William Shakespeare
Charles William Sherborn · 1876
Chrysosplenium nudicaule Bunge
Artist not stated in the record · 26 Jul 1923
William Shakespeare
Charles William Sherborn · 1876
Cotoneaster adpressus Bois
Artist not stated in the record · 3 Aug 1923
William Shakespeare
Charles William Sherborn · 1876
Allium kansuense Regel
Artist not stated in the record · 25 Jul 1923
A Rake's Progress, Plate 7
William Hogarth · June 25, 1735
Helictotrichon tibeticum (Roshev.) Holub
Artist not stated in the record · 25 Jul 1923
A Rake's Progress, Plate 7
William Hogarth · June 25, 1735
Soroseris hookeriana Stebbins
Artist not stated in the record · 3 Aug 1923
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. 20 matched · 20 examined · 5 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. 993457 matched · 40 examined · 15 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 2026-09-02 15:22 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.