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. 24 shown for “United States Geological Survey” — 64 records examined, 33 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 18:38 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Day 322, Survey U, Sectors 15 and 16
United States Geological Survey · 1967
Lomatogonium rotatum (L.) Fr.
Artist not stated in the record · 2 Aug 1958
Hooded Male Head (from Sketches on the Coast Survey Plate)
James McNeill Whistler · 1854–55
Lomatogonium rotatum (L.) Fr.
Artist not stated in the record · 11 Aug 1958
Hooded Male Head (from Sketches on The Coast Survey Plate)
James McNeill Whistler · 1854–55
Packera ogotorukensis (Packer) Á. Löve & D. Löve
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 25/6/57
View of a Coast Line (from Sketches on the Coast Survey Plate)
James McNeill Whistler · 1854–55
Senecio riddellii Torr. & A. Gray
Artist not stated in the record · 12 Oct 1896
Two Female Heads and Standing Figure (from Sketches on the Coast Survey Plate)
James McNeill Whistler · 1854–55
Stellaria borealis Bigelow subsp. borealis
Artist not stated in the record · 2 Aug 1958
Old Woman and Child in Oval (from Sketches on the Coast Survey Plate)
James McNeill Whistler · 1854–55
Swertia perennis L.
Artist not stated in the record · 29 Jun 1958
Two Female Heads and Standing Figure (from Sketches on the Coast Survey Plate)
James McNeill Whistler · 1854–55
Stellaria borealis Bigelow subsp. borealis
Artist not stated in the record · 29 Jun 1958
Bearded Man in Soldier's Cap (from Sketches on the Coast Survey Plate)
James McNeill Whistler · 1854–55
Packera indecora (Greene) Á. Löve & D. Löve
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 16/7/57
Black Cañon, From Camp 8, Looking Above
Timothy H. O'Sullivan · 1871
Packera cymbalaria (Pursh) W.A. Weber & Á. Löve
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 20/6/57
Photographs Showing Landscapes, Geological and Other Features, of Portions of the Western Territory of the United States, Obtained in connection with Geographical and Geological Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian, Seasons of 1871, 1872 and 1873
Timothy H. O'Sullivan · 1871–73
Gentiana barbata Froel.
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 9/7/57
Photographs Showing Landscapes, Geological and Other Features, of Portions of the Western Territory of the United States, Obtained in connection with Geographical and Geological Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian, Season of 1871
Timothy H. O'Sullivan · 1871
Stellaria borealis Bigelow subsp. borealis
Artist not stated in the record · 12 Jun 1958
Photographs Showing Landscapes, Geological and Other Features, of Portions of the Western Territory of the United States, Obtained in connection with Geographical and Geological Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian, Season of 1872
William H. Bell · 1872
Stellaria borealis Bigelow subsp. borealis
Artist not stated in the record · 10 Jul 1958
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. 289 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 5483691 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 2026-09-03 18:38 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.