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. 22 shown for “William Stevens” — 64 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 14:08 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 Japanese Robe
Alfred Stevens · ca. 1872
Metastelma trichophyllum (L.O. Williams) W.D. Stevens
Artist not stated in the record · 20 Sep 1988
Sunset Magazine
William Stevens · ca. 1900
Orthosia misera (L.O. Williams) W.D. Stevens
Artist not stated in the record · 17 Jul 1965
Sunset Magazine, April
William Stevens · 1903
Orthosia misera (L.O. Williams) W.D. Stevens
Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1907
Rose bowl
Stevens and Williams · after 1886
Cynanchum miserum L.O. Williams
Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1887
Springtime
Pierre-Auguste Cot · 1873
Teamwork Builds Ships
William Dodge Stevens, American, 1870 - 1942 · 1918
In the Studio
Alfred Stevens · 1888
Sida spinosa L.
Artist not stated in the record · 1800 to 1899
After the Ball
Alfred Stevens · 1874
Tridens flavus (L.) Hitchc.
Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1892
New-York (Union Square, Looking South)
C. Bachman · 1850
Muhlenbergia paniculata (Nutt.) Columbus
Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1892
Spring
Cephas Giovanni Thompson · 1838
Bouteloua curtipendula (Michx.) Torr.
Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1891
Bowl
Stevens and Williams · 1885–1900
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium Schrad.
Artist not stated in the record
Viola pedatifida G. Don
Artist not stated in the record
Helenium autumnale L.
Artist not stated in the record · 18
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. 274 matched · 24 examined · 14 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.10 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 282802 matched · 40 examined · 5 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 14:08 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.