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. 24 shown for “Thomas Cook” — 64 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 18:20 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Mug
Richard Gurney · 1740–41
Weda Cook (Louise Blanche Cook)
Thomas Eakins, born Philadelphia, PA 1844-died Philadelphia, PA 1916 · ca. 1892?
Tankard
Richard Gurney · 1733–34
Interior and Exterior of the Olympic Theater, Near Drury Lane, London
Jacob C. Schnebbelie, 1760–1792 · 1816
Royal Masquerade Somerset House
Thomas Cook · October 21, 1805
Interior and Exterior Views of the Regency Theater, Tottenham Street, London
Jacob C. Schnebbelie, 1760–1792 · 1817
Rich's Glory, or His Triumphant Entry into Covent Garden, December 1732
Thomas Cook · November 1, 1809
Dorothy Cook Katar
Thomas Eakins, born Philadelphia, PA 1844-died Philadelphia, PA 1916 · ca. 1892?
Bambridge on Trial for Murder by a Committee of the House of Commons
Thomas Cook · June 1, 1803
George Caleb Bingham Self-Portrait
George Caleb Bingham, 20 Mar 1811 - 7 Jul 1879 · c. 1849-50
The Wedding of Stephen Beckingham and Mary Cox
William Hogarth · 1729
Steam Cooker
Artist not stated in the record · 1872-03-05
No. 4: Cook
Henri Merke · February 15, 1799
Thomas U. Walter
Unidentified Artist · 1856
Thomas Wriothesley (1505–1550), First Earl of Southampton
Hans Holbein the Younger · ca. 1535
In Camp on Soda Butte Creek, Cook City
Thomas Moran, born Bolton, England 1837-died Santa Barbara, CA 1926 · 1892
Captain James Cook
Wedgwood and Bentley · late 18th century
Weda Cook
Thomas Eakins, American, b. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1844–1916 · (c. 1892)
Frontispiece to "The Humours of Oxford"
William Hogarth · November 1, 1807
Weda Cook with Antique Cast
Thomas Eakins, American, b. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1844–1916 · (c. 1892)
The Abduction of the Sabine Women
Nicolas Poussin · probably 1633–34
Sorghum halepense (L.) Pers.
Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1899
Dinners Drest in the Neatest Manner
Thomas Rowlandson · October 1811
Protonotaria citrea
Artist not stated in the record · 20 Jun 1947
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. 90 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. 145580 matched · 40 examined · 24 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 2026-08-28 18:20 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.