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 James Smith” — 64 records examined, 33 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 06:33 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 Blindness of Tobit: A Sketch
William James Smith · ca. 1825
Members, House of Assembly
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1798
Christ and the Woman of Samaria among Ruins (reverse copy)
William James Smith · 1824–26
Fancied Security, or the Rats on a Bender
Louis Maurer, 1832 - 1932 · 1856
William Loughton Smith
Archibald Robertson · ca. 1795
Land deed for property in West Virginia owned by the Crawford family
Artist not stated in the record · February 7, 1903
Abigail Smith Adams
James Sharples · ca.1796
President McKinley and Cabinet
Pach Brothers Studio, active 1867 - 1993 · 1901
Saint James the Greater
Gil de Siloe · 1489–93
Anti-Slavery Constitutional Amendment Picture
Powell & Co. · 1865
Appliqué Figure of the Apostle James
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1350
Mr. Goodin
James P. Smith, ca. 1803-died Philadelphia, PA 1888 · ca. 1835
James Stuart (1612–1655), Duke of Richmond and Lennox
Anthony van Dyck · ca. 1633–35
Mr. Goodin
James P. Smith, ca. 1803-died Philadelphia, PA 1888 · ca. 1835
William Fraser of Reelig (1784–1835)
Sir Henry Raeburn · 1801
Montage of American Theatrical Figures
Unidentified Artist · 1866
The Bryant Vase
Tiffany & Co. · 1876
Radical Members of the South Carolina Legislature
Unidentified · 1868
Automaton in the form of a chariot pushed by a Chinese attendant and set with a clock
James Cox · 1766
Statesmen and Generals, Confederacy
Unidentified Artist · c. 1863
Apostle spoon: St. James the Great
William Cawdell · 1592/93
William Henry Harrison
John Sartain, 24 Oct 1808 - 25 Oct 1897 · 1841
Apostle spoon: St. James the Less
William Cawdell · 1592/93
Members of the Press After the Ceremonies
Artist not stated in the record · 1865
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. 5405 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. 496213 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 2026-09-06 06:33 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.