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. 15 shown for “William R. Meinell, American” — 64 records examined, 44 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 01:22 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Transverse Flute
William R. Meinell · ca. 1880–1900
Flute made for Blind Tom by William R. Meinell with original instrument case
William R. Meinell, American · 1879-1884
William Maxwell Evarts
Augustus Saint-Gaudens · 1872–73; carved 1874
Instrument case for flute made for Blind Tom by William R. Meinell
William R. Meinell, American · 1879-1884
The Wedding of Stephen Beckingham and Mary Cox
William Hogarth · 1729
Flute made for Blind Tom by William R. Meinell
William R. Meinell, American · 1879-1884
An Arctic Summer: Boring Through the Pack in Melville Bay
William Bradford · 1871
Gardner's Photographic Sketchbook of the War, Volume 2
Alexander Gardner · 1863
Gardner's Photographic Sketchbook of the War, Volume 1
Alexander Gardner · 1863
The Libyan Sibyl
William Wetmore Story · 1860; carved 1861
Approaching Thunder Storm
Martin Johnson Heade · 1859
Whalers
Joseph Mallord William Turner · ca. 1845
The Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux, Queen of France
Jean Pucelle · ca. 1324–28
Eight-Day Tall Case Clock with Musical Movement
Daniel Burnap · 1790–95
Goblet
Robert and William Wilson · ca. 1845
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. 1720 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. 2098096 matched · 40 examined · 37 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.3 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 01:22 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.