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 “5c Thomas Jefferson trial color card proof” — 46 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-08 12:30 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Elizabeth Farren (born about 1759, died 1829), Later Countess of Derby
Sir Thomas Lawrence · 1790
5c Thomas Jefferson trial color card proof
Artist not stated in the record · 1881
Thomas A. Edison, printer's sample for the World's Inventors souvenir album (A25) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes
Allen & Ginter · 1888
5c Thomas Jefferson trial color card proof
Artist not stated in the record · 1881
Self-Portrait with Two Pupils, Marie Gabrielle Capet (1761–1818) and Marie Marguerite Carraux de Rosemond (1765–1788)
Adélaïde Labille-Guiard · 1785
5c Thomas Jefferson trial color card proof
Artist not stated in the record · 1881
Esther before Ahasuerus
Artemisia Gentileschi · 1620s
5c Thomas Jefferson trial color card proof
Artist not stated in the record · 1881
Midas Washing at the Source of the Pactolus
Nicolas Poussin · ca. 1627
5c Thomas Jefferson trial color card proof
Artist not stated in the record · 1881
5c brown Jefferson plate proof single
Artist not stated in the record · 1861
5c & 10c composite large die trial color proof
Artist not stated in the record · 1847
5c Thomas Jefferson card plate proof
Artist not stated in the record · 1893
5c Thomas Jefferson card plate proof
Artist not stated in the record · 1893
10c Executive Official Thomas Jefferson trial color proof
Artist not stated in the record · 1881
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. 6 matched · 6 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.5 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 666581 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 2026-09-08 12:30 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.