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 “William J. Walley” — 64 records examined, 9 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 01:27 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Vase
William J. Walley · ca. 1898–1918
Encelia virginensis A. Nelson
Artist not stated in the record · 29 Sep 2014
Vase
William J. Walley · ca. 1898–1918
Campoplegidea ocellata
Artist not stated in the record · 16 Nov 1913
Vase
William J. Walley · ca. 1898–1918
Scambus (Scambus) portentus
Artist not stated in the record · 10.3.48
Vase
William J. Walley · ca. 1898–1918
Campoplegidea simulans
Artist not stated in the record · 6 Sep 1923
Vase
William J. Walley · ca. 1898–1918
Campoplegidea gracilis
Artist not stated in the record · May 1924
Vase
William J. Walley · ca. 1898–1918
Pitcher
Jonas & Walley · 19th century
Vase
William J. Walley · ca. 1898–1918
Oenothera fruticosa subsp. tetragona (Roth) W.L. Wagner
Artist not stated in the record · 17 Jun 1901
Vase
William J. Walley · ca. 1898–1918
Cordulia shurtleffi
Artist not stated in the record · 19 Jun 1924
Vase with Satyr-head handles
William J. Walley · ca. 1898–1919
Lanthus parvulus
Artist not stated in the record · 28 Jun 1924
Vase
William J. Walley · ca. 1898–1918
Stylogomphus albistylus
Artist not stated in the record · 12 Jul 1924
Vase
William J. Walley · ca. 1898–1918
Glyceria septentrionalis Hitchc.
Artist not stated in the record · 17 Jun 1901
Vase
William J. Walley · ca. 1898–1918
Betula nigra L.
Artist not stated in the record · 2 May 1901
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. 6268 matched · 24 examined · 7 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. 1404195 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 01:27 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.