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 Thomas Saunders” — 64 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 05:32 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 Far East: A Monthly Journal, Illustrated with Photographs
William Thomas Saunders · 1870s
Radical Members of the South Carolina Legislature
Unidentified · 1868
Opium smoker
William Thomas Saunders · 1867
Siphonophora gaurae
Artist not stated in the record · 14 May 1890
Pekin-car
William Thomas Saunders · 1867
Siphonophora gaurae
Artist not stated in the record · 14 May 1890
Pipe Organ
Thomas Appleton · 1830
Siphonophora gaurina
Artist not stated in the record · 14 May 1890
Jalais Hill, Pontoise
Camille Pissarro · 1867
Myzus oenotherae
Artist not stated in the record · 14 May 1890
Chest
William Searle · 1663–80
Aphis solidaginifoliae
Artist not stated in the record · 14 May 1890
Fan Mount: The Cabbage Gatherers
Camille Pissarro · ca. 1878–79
Myzus potentillae
Artist not stated in the record · 14 May 1890
Mrs. Grace Dalrymple Elliott (1754?–1823)
Thomas Gainsborough · 1778
Myzus potentillae
Artist not stated in the record · 14 May 1890
Productions of the Leeds Photographic Society
T. Dixon · 1852
Siphonophora luteola
Artist not stated in the record · 14 May 1890
Ewer
Thomas Fletcher · 1830–40
Siphonophora luteola
Artist not stated in the record · 14 May 1890
Apostle spoon: St. Thomas
William Cawdell · 1592/93
Aphis solidaginifoliae
Artist not stated in the record · 14 May 1890
Cottage Children (The Wood Gatherers)
Thomas Gainsborough · 1787
Myzus thalictri
Artist not stated in the record · 14 May 1890
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. 1992 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 376555 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-09-04 05:32 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.