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. 14 shown for “William Henry Fox Talbot” — 64 records examined, 38 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 12:55 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Wrack
William Henry Fox Talbot · 1839
Quercus alba L.
Artist not stated in the record · 6 Jun 2002
![[The Oriel Window, South Gallery, Lacock Abbey], by William Henry Fox Talbot](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDP339371.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[The Oriel Window, South Gallery, Lacock Abbey]
William Henry Fox Talbot · probably 1835
Pheucticus ludovicianus
Artist not stated in the record · 13 May 1974
![[Botanical Specimen], by William Henry Fox Talbot](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDP339367.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[Botanical Specimen]
William Henry Fox Talbot · ca. 1835
Scott Monument before Completion, Edinburgh
William Henry Fox Talbot · 1844
![[The Photographer's Daughter], by William Henry Fox Talbot](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDP148637.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[The Photographer's Daughter]
William Henry Fox Talbot · ca. 1842
![[Leaf], by William Henry Fox Talbot](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDP167360.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[Leaf]
William Henry Fox Talbot · ca. 1839
![[Leaf], by William Henry Fox Talbot](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDP167358.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[Leaf]
William Henry Fox Talbot · ca. 1840
The Ancient Vestry
William Henry Fox Talbot · 1845
Highland Hut, Loch Katrine
William Henry Fox Talbot · October 1844
Statuette of the Three Graces
William Henry Fox Talbot · 1840s
Oxford High Street
William Henry Fox Talbot · ca. 1845
A Bush of Hydrangea in Flower
William Henry Fox Talbot · ca. 1842
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. 208 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 372157 matched · 40 examined · 38 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.2 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-26 12:55 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.