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. 13 shown for “William Notman, 8 Mar 1826 - 25 Nov 1891” — 41 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 13:09 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Don Gaspar de Guzmán (1587–1645), Count-Duke of Olivares
Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo · ca. 1636 or later
William Notman
William Notman, 8 Mar 1826 - 25 Nov 1891 · c. 1880
George Bird Grinnell
William Notman, 8 Mar 1826 - 25 Nov 1891 · c. 1880
John Greenleaf Whittier
William Notman, 8 Mar 1826 - 25 Nov 1891 · 1881
Sitting Bull
William Notman, 8 Mar 1826 - 25 Nov 1891 · c. 1885
Sitting Bull
William Notman, 8 Mar 1826 - 25 Nov 1891 · c. 1885
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
William Notman, 8 Mar 1826 - 25 Nov 1891 · c. 1880
Theodore Roosevelt
William Notman, 8 Mar 1826 - 25 Nov 1891 · 1883
Spanish Bronzes at the Centennial Exhibition
William Notman, Canadian, born Paisley, Scotland 1826-died Montreal, Quebec, Canada 1891 · 1875, published 1876
Portrait of James Dwight Dana (1813-1895)
Notman, William · 1891
Portrait of Carl Wilhelm Siemens (1823-1883)
Notman, William · 1876
Sarah Meade Valentine's notes regarding the Meade Brothers
Sarah Meade, 1855 - 1936 · n.d.a.
Thomas S. Hamblin
David Claypoole Johnston, Mar 1799 - 8 Nov 1865 · 1826
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. 1 matched · 1 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.1 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 4801019 matched · 40 examined · 24 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 13:09 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.