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 Seddon” — 41 records examined, 18 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 22:54 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
View on the Nile near Cairo
Thomas Seddon · ca. 1855
James Alexander Seddon
A. Hurdle, 1863 - ? · 1863
Hebe hulkeana (F. Muell. ex Hook. f.) Andersen
Artist not stated in the record · 22 Oct 1929
Hebe hulkeana (F. Muell. ex Hook. f.) Andersen
Artist not stated in the record · 22 Nov 1929
Oloptum miliaceum Röser & H. R. Hamasha
Artist not stated in the record · 8 May 1942
5c Jefferson Davis on Confederate cover
Artist not stated in the record · September 10, 1862
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Gimbrede, 1781 - 1832 · 1819
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Gimbrede, 1781 - 1832 · 1809
Thomas Jefferson
Max Rosenthal, 23 Nov 1833 - 8 Aug 1918 · 1905
Thomas Jefferson
Unidentified Artist · c. 1801
Thomas Jefferson
Enoch G. Gridley, active 1801 - 1818 · c. 1802
Thomas Jefferson
Jacques Reich, 10 Aug 1852 - 8 Jul 1923 · c. 1899-1920
Thomas Jefferson
Unidentified Artist · 1796
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. 119238 matched · 40 examined · 18 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 22:54 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.