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. 15 shown for “Smith, Lew C 1867-1941” — 43 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 21:18 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Young Man in the Costume of a Majo
Edouard Manet · 1863
The air line march and two-step by Lew C. Smith ; [arrangement by John Itzel]
Smith, Lew C 1867-1941 · 1915
A Goldsmith in his Shop
Petrus Christus · 1449
Hymenostomum microstomum (Hedw.) R. Br.
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 9/4/61
Virgin and Child with Saint Anne
Albrecht Dürer · probably 1519
Prociphilus (Prociphilus) carolinensis
Artist not stated in the record · 15 Nov 1966
Sympetrum obtrusum
Artist not stated in the record · 9 Aug 1941
Sympetrum obtrusum
Artist not stated in the record · 9 Aug 1941
Sympetrum obtrusum
Artist not stated in the record · 9 Aug 1941
Sympetrum obtrusum
Artist not stated in the record · 10 Aug 1941
Euphorbia maculata L.
Artist not stated in the record · 14 Aug 1941 to 17 Aug 1941
Cheiroglossa palmata (L.) C. Presl
Artist not stated in the record · 18 Oct 1941 to 21 Oct 1941
Diphasium jussiaei (Desv.) C. Presl ex Rothm.
Artist not stated in the record · 15 Oct 1941 to 16 Oct 1941
Xylocopa (Notoxylocopa) tabaniformis orpifex
Artist not stated in the record · 1 Jun 1941 to 30 Jun 1941
Cycas celebica Miq.
Artist not stated in the record · 21 Dec 1933
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. 3 matched · 3 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.3 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 479 matched · 40 examined · 27 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 2026-09-04 21:18 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.