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 “Smith, John” — 64 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 12:19 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
An Address to the Workmen in the Pottery on the Subject of Entering into the Service of Foreign Manufacturers
Josiah Wedgwood · 1783
John Smith
Unidentified Artist · c. 1617
Joseph Tayadaneega, called the Brant, the Great Captain of the Six Nations
John Raphael Smith · February 10, 1779
John Smith
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1799
Spoon
John Smith · 1663–64
John Cotton Smith
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1806
Cup
John Smith I · 1703–4
John Hill Smith
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1808
Chair
Christopher Dresser · 1870
John Smith
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1806
Gabriel V. Ludlow
John Rubens Smith · 1816
John S. Smith
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1805
Scene (from McGuire Scrapbook)
John Rubens Smith · 1834
John Smith Phelps
McClees & Vannerson, active 1857 - 1860 · c. 1859
Cohoes Falls on Mohawk River, New York
John Rubens Smith
John Ross
John Rubens Smith, 1775 - 1849 · 1841
Allan Melville
John Rubens Smith · 1810
Pochanhontas Saving the Life of Capt John Smith
Robinson, Henry R. · ca 1840
Smith and Wesson .32 Caliber Single-Action Revolver, serial no. 17156
Smith & Wesson · 1881–1902
John Cotton Smith
Artist not stated in the record · July 7, 1862
Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Grounds
John Constable · ca. 1825
John Cotton Smith
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70
English Guittar (Cittern) with "Smith's Patent Box"
Artist not stated in the record · mid to late 18th century
John Cotton Smith
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70
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. 940 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 374558 matched · 40 examined · 24 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 12:19 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.