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. 21 shown for “The New England Almanac, 1888” — 64 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 07:10 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Presentation vase
New England Glass Company · 1843
The New England Almanac, 1888
Artist not stated in the record
Vase
New England Glass Company · 1855–75
Home bound almanacs
Artist not stated in the record · 1734 - 1799
Paperweight
New England Glass Company · 1850–80
Home bound almanacs
Artist not stated in the record · 1800-1833
Paperweight
New England Glass Company · 1850–75
The 1841 Harrison Almanac
Artist not stated in the record · 1841
Salt
New England Glass Company · 1829–35
Almanac, 1834-1855
Artist not stated in the record · 1834-1855
"Wild Rose" Lily vase
New England Glass Company · ca. 1886
Old Tippecanoe's Raisin' Almanac
Artist not stated in the record
Covered jar
New England Glass Company · 1883–88
Anti-Masonic Almanac, 1832
Artist not stated in the record
Candlestick
Henry Whitney · 1870–75
The New York Annual Register
Artist not stated in the record
Paperweight
William Leighton Sr. · ca. 1850
Green's Connecticut Annual Register and United States Calendar for the Year 1847
Artist not stated in the record
Vase
Joseph Locke · 1883–87
Pitcher
New England Glass Company · 1817–40
Settee
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema · ca. 1885
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. 318 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 1515837 matched · 40 examined · 31 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.9 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 07:10 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.