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 Heyward, Jr.” — 64 records examined, 48 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 19:03 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Elizabeth Farren (born about 1759, died 1829), Later Countess of Derby
Sir Thomas Lawrence · 1790
Thomas Heyward, Jr.
Artist not stated in the record · 1854
Queen Victoria
Thomas Sully · 1838
Nathaniel Heyward, Jr.
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1809
Repeating watch
Francis Perigal · probably ca. 1770
Biography of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence, Vol. V
Artist not stated in the record
Washerwoman, Study
Camille Pissarro · 1880
Quercus durandii Buckley
Artist not stated in the record · Nov 1883
Thomas Ewing Jr.
Addis & Noel's · c. 1863
Thomas Mendenhall, Jr.
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1809
Thomas Newton, Jr.
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1806
Asclepias variegata L.
Artist not stated in the record · 10 May 2004
Where there is an Evil
Thomas Nast, 27 Sep 1840 - 7 Dec 1902 · November 8, 1873
Thomas Butler
William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845 · 1804
Crataegus viridis L.
Artist not stated in the record · 10 May 2004
Thomas Allen, Jr.
Olin Levi Warner, born Suffield, CT 1844-died New York City 1896 · 1889
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. 694 matched · 24 examined · 20 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.4 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 255414 matched · 40 examined · 28 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 2026-09-01 19:03 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.