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. 15 shown for “Thomas Hicks, 18 Oct 1823 - 8 Oct 1890” — 43 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 19:22 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Grotesque Borders for Rooms & Halls
Thomas Rowlandson · [October 29, 1800], reprint
Thomas Hicks
Unidentified Artist · c. 1865
Miseries of Human Life: While Deep in Study and Lost in Thought in the Complicated Profession of a Taylor and All on a Sudden Disturbed by the Shrieks of a Woman Crying Cucumbers
Nicolaus Heideloff · October 1807
Unidentified Man
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1856
Madame Réjane
Aubrey Vincent Beardsley · 1894
Edwin Booth
Thomas Hicks, 18 Oct 1823 - 8 Oct 1890 · 1863
Samuel Jones Tilden
Thomas Hicks, 18 Oct 1823 - 8 Oct 1890 · c. 1870
Henry Ward Beecher
John C. McRae, active 1850 - 1880 · 1853
Elisha Kent Kane
Thomas Hicks, 18 Oct 1823 - 8 Oct 1890 · c. 1860
Samuel Jones Tilden
Thomas Hicks, 18 Oct 1823 - 8 Oct 1890 · c. 1870
Bayard Taylor
Thomas Hicks, 18 Oct 1823 - 8 Oct 1890 · 1855
Abraham Lincoln
Leopold Grozelier, 1830 - 1865 · 1860
Edward Everett
Hezekiah Wright Smith, 1828 - ? · c. 1875
Gentlemen's Committee on the Fine Arts
Mathew B. Brady, 1823? - 15 Jan 1896 · 1864
Red Jacket (Sagoyewatha)
Thomas Hicks, 18 Oct 1823 - 8 Oct 1890 · 1868
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. 3 matched · 3 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.3 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 3762831 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 19:22 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.