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. 13 shown for “Thomas Johnson, 1844 - 1904” — 41 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 03:46 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 Death of Socrates
Jacques Louis David · 1787
Samuel Putnam Avery
Thomas Johnson, 1844 - 1904 · c. 1903
Abraham Lincoln
Thomas Johnson, born London, England 1844-died New York City 1904 · after 1864
Frank B.A. Linton
Thomas Eakins, American, b. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1844–1916 · (c. 1904)
Leaving the Firehouse by H. A. Thomas & Wylie Lithographic Company and published by Buchanan and Lyall.
Artist not stated in the record · 1895
Frank B. A. Linton
Thomas Eakins, American, b. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1844–1916 · 1904
Portrait of Samuel Myers
Thomas Eakins, American, b. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1844–1916 · 1904
The Violinist
Thomas Eakins, American, b. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1844–1916 · (1904)
Thomas A. Edison
Longworth Powers, born Cincinnati, OH 1835-died Florence, Italy 1904 · 1886
Thomas Walker Gilmer
Francis D'Avignon, 29 Oct 1813 - c. 1871 · 1844
Study of a Girl's Head
Thomas Eakins, American, b. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1844–1916 · (1868-1869)
Portrait of William Mac Dowell
Thomas Eakins, American, b. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1844–1916 · (c. 1890)
Portrait of Mrs. Thomas Eakins
Thomas Eakins, American, b. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1844–1916 · (c. 1899)
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. 1 matched · 1 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.1 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 221517 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 2026-09-01 03:46 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.