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 McKnight, Medal of Honor Recipient” — 64 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 23:46 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Eccleston Medal
Thomas Webb · 1805
William McKnight, Medal of Honor Recipient
Artist not stated in the record
In Memory and Honor of William Pitt, the Younger
Webb · 19th century
William D. Newland, Medal of Honor Recipient
Artist not stated in the record
In Honor of King Friedrich William of Wurtemburg, Known as William I (1816–64)
F. Wagner · 1826
William R. Pelham, Medal of Honor Recipient
Artist not stated in the record
Medal of the Constituency of Meaux in Honor of Its Deputy
Jacques Edouard Gatteaux · 1830
James Miller, Medal of Honor Recipient
Artist not stated in the record
In Honor of the Surgical and Pathological Discoveries of Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, Bart., Sergeant-Surgeon to George IV, William IV, and Victoria (1783–1862)
William Wyon · 1841
John F. Mackie, Medal of Honor Recipient
Artist not stated in the record
Oedipus and the Sphinx
Gustave Moreau · 1864
Lewis C. Shepard, Medal of Honor Recipient
Artist not stated in the record
Medal of Franklin Pierce
Salathiel Ellis · 1853
Daniel D. Stevens, Medal of Honor Recipient
Artist not stated in the record
George Inness Gold Medal
Jonathan Scott Hartley · 1900
Hugh Molloy, Medal of Honor Recipient
Artist not stated in the record
Victoria's Visit to the Corporation of London
William Wyon · 1837
John H. Lawson, Medal of Honor Recipient
Artist not stated in the record
Victoria Visit to the Corporation of London
William Wyon · 1837
Cornelius Cronin, Medal of Honor Recipient
Artist not stated in the record
Queen Victoria's Visit to the Corporation of London
William Wyon · 1837
Bartholemew Diggins, Medal of Honor Recipient
Artist not stated in the record
Juan de Pareja (ca. 1608–1670)
Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) · 1650
Christian Fleetwood's Medal of Honor
Artist not stated in the record · 1862
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. 54 matched · 24 examined · 6 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. 2985656 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 2026-09-05 23:46 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.