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. 16 shown for “Thomas Briggs” — 46 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 08:39 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Productions of the Leeds Photographic Society
T. Dixon · 1852
Card Commemorating a Test of the Effectiveness of Vaccination onTwelve Children in Milton, Massachusetts
Artist not stated in the record · 1809
![[Merchants' Carnival Portrait: J.D. Black Harness, Lompoc, California], by Thomas Briggs](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDP-43423-103.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[Merchants' Carnival Portrait: J.D. Black Harness, Lompoc, California]
Thomas Briggs · 1880s–1890s
Jesse Briggs
Jesse Briggs, ? - 21 Aug 1883 · c. 1865
A Labour of Love, from "Illustrated News of the World"
Thomas Francis Dicksee · March 24, 1860
Desmocladus parthenicus B.G. Briggs & L.A.S. Johnson
Artist not stated in the record · 13 Sep 1966
Armor Garniture of George Clifford (1558–1605), Third Earl of Cumberland
Jacob Halder · 1586
Briggs Family Crest
Jesse Briggs, ? - 21 Aug 1883 · 1864
Ranunculus niphophilus B.G. Briggs
Artist not stated in the record · 17 Jan 1956
Left Gauntlet of Henry (1594–1612), Prince of Wales
Jacob Halder · ca. 1608
Ranunculus productus B.G. Briggs
Artist not stated in the record · 5 Jan 1959
Ranunculus clivicola B.G. Briggs
Artist not stated in the record · 6 Feb 1957
Ranunculus niphophilus B.G. Briggs
Artist not stated in the record · 20 Jan 1959
Apodasmia brownii (Hook. f.) B.G. Briggs & L.A.S. Johnson
Artist not stated in the record · 18
Apodasmia brownii (Hook. f.) B.G. Briggs & L.A.S. Johnson
Artist not stated in the record
Ranunculus clivicola B.G. Briggs
Artist not stated in the record · 3 Feb 1958
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. 6 matched · 6 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.6 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 120303 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-05 08:39 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.