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. 14 shown for “Stow, John” — 64 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 08:35 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
A survey of the cities of London and Westminster and the Borough of Southwark written at first in the year 1698 (i.e. 1598)..Corrected, improved, and very much enlarged in the year 1720 by John Strype
John Stow · 1754–55
Philadelphia Contributionship Fire Mark
Stow, John · 1753
Bellona
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1633
Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, Vol. I
Stowe, Harriet Beecher · 1852
Composite Group Portrait of Touring Lecturers for the American Literary Bureau
American Literary Bureau · 1868
Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly
Artist not stated in the record · 1852
Scleranthus perennis L.
Artist not stated in the record
Columnea guttata Poepp.
Artist not stated in the record · 20 Dec 2013
Columnea linearis Oerst.
Artist not stated in the record · 30 May 2001
Columnea schiedeana Schltdl.
Artist not stated in the record · 30 May 2001
Drymonia coccinea (Aubl.) Wiehler
Artist not stated in the record · 30 May 2001
Columnea raymondii C.V. Morton
Artist not stated in the record · 30 May 2001
Columnea zebrina Raymond
Artist not stated in the record · 30 May 2001
Columnea gallicauda Wiehler
Artist not stated in the record · 30 May 2001
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. 50 matched · 24 examined · 22 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.2 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 260643 matched · 40 examined · 8 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 2026-09-03 08:35 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.