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. 12 shown for “Thomas Cole” — 40 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 13:26 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.
Thomas Cole
Frederic Edwin Church, 4 May 1826 - 7 Apr 1900 · 1846
Thomas Cole
Mathew B. Brady, 1823? - 15 Jan 1896 · c. 1845
Theodore Cole Leaning on a Sack, Catskill, New York
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · August 1844 and June 1845
The Pilgrim of the Cross at the End of His Journey (study for series, The Cross and the World)
Thomas Cole, born Bolton-le-Moors, England 1801-died Catskill, NY 1848 · ca. 1846-1848
The Subsiding of the Waters of the Deluge
Thomas Cole, born Bolton-le-Moors, England 1801-died Catskill, NY 1848 · 1829
The Pilgrim of the World at the End of His Journey (study for the series, The Cross and the World)
Thomas Cole, born Bolton-le-Moors, England 1801-died Catskill, NY 1848 · ca. 1847
Bull Sketches, Catskill, New York
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · August 1844
Theodore Cole Pulling his Toy Sailboat, Catskill, New York
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · August 1844
Sketch of a Tree, Catskill, New York
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · September 1844
Sketches of Tree and Roots, Catskill, New York
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · September 1844
A Pitch Pine, Catskill, New York
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · September 1844
Sunset Sketch
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · August and September 1844
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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 124375 matched · 40 examined · 5 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 2026-08-27 13:26 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.