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. 19 shown for “William Townsend” — 64 records examined, 37 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 01:52 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Tall clock
John Townsend · 1789
Photograph of Dr. A. M. Townsend next to a statue
Artist not stated in the record · most likely 1909
Cream jug
William Townsend · ca. 1735
Typha latifolia L.
Artist not stated in the record · 7 Nov 2014 and 17 Nov 2014
Whalers
Joseph Mallord William Turner · ca. 1845
Robert Townsend Hooe
William Bache, 22 Dec 1771 - 9 Jul 1845 · c. 1803-04
High chest
Christopher Townsend · 1748
Print of M. G. Sishuba
Unidentified · 1918
Pier table
Joseph B. Barry and Son · 1810–15
Photograph of Professor W. H. Singleton
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1909
Our Young Folks, an Illustrated Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. III, Nos. I-XII
John Townsend Trowbridge · 1867
Dalea grayi (Vail) L.O. Williams
Artist not stated in the record · 28 Aug 1899
The Fisherman's Dog
Samuel William Reynolds, the elder · 1800
Parus rufescens rufescens
Artist not stated in the record · 16 Apr 1892
Seal Matrix with Abbot William of Gross St. Martin and Saint Martin
Artist not stated in the record · before 1152
Songs of Shakespeare, Illustrated by the Etching Club
William Shakespeare · 1843
Roland
William Merritt Chase · ca. 1902
Martello Towers near Bexhill, Sussex, part VII, plate 34 from "Liber Studiorum"
Joseph Mallord William Turner · June 1811
Plate
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century
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. 44 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 272737 matched · 40 examined · 33 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.7 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 01:52 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.