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 “Thomas Danforth, III” — 64 records examined, 10 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 01:01 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Sugar Bowl
Thomas Danforth, III · 1777–90
Charadrius vociferus ternominatus
Artist not stated in the record · 4 Jan 1929
Dish
Thomas Danforth, III · 1807–13
Dendroica discolor
Artist not stated in the record · 3 Jan 1927
Inkwell
Thomas Danforth, III · 1807–13
Setophaga ruticilla
Artist not stated in the record · 3 Jan 1927
Saucer
Thomas Danforth, III · 1777–1818
Tringa flavipes
Artist not stated in the record · 18 Jan 1937
Quart Mug
Thomas Danforth, III · 1777–1818
Coereba flaveola sanctithomae
Artist not stated in the record · 24 Dec 1933
Plate
Thomas Danforth, III · 1777–1818
Dendroica petechia cruciana
Artist not stated in the record · 18 Jun 1935
Shaker
Thomas Danforth, III · ca. 1800–1813
Beaker
Thomas Danforth Boardman · 1810–50
Haystacks, Morning, Eragny
Camille Pissarro · 1899
Elaenia martinica riisii
Artist not stated in the record · 16 Jan 1937
Richard Thomas III
James Peale · 1796
Eulampis holosericeus holosericeus
Artist not stated in the record · 18 Jun 1935
The Williamson Family
John Mix Stanley · ca. 1841–42
Coereba flaveola sanctithomae
Artist not stated in the record · 4 Jan 1927
Pipe Organ
Thomas Appleton · 1830
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. 638 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 134205 matched · 40 examined · 10 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 01:01 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.