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. 14 shown for “Absentee ballot return cover” — 42 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 18:59 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 Forest in Winter at Sunset
Théodore Rousseau · ca. 1846–67
Absentee ballot return cover
Artist not stated in the record · 1944
Madame Philippe Panon Desbassayns de Richemont (Jeanne Eglé Mourgue, 1778–1855) and Her Son, Eugène (1800–1859)
Marie Guillemine Benoist · 1802
Absentee ballot return cover
Artist not stated in the record · 1944
Absentee ballot return cover
Artist not stated in the record · 1944
Absentee ballot return cover
Artist not stated in the record · October 10, 1944
Absentee ballot return cover
Artist not stated in the record · September 25, 1944
Absentee ballot return cover
Artist not stated in the record · 1944
Absentee ballot request postcard
Artist not stated in the record · 1944
Absentee ballot interior return envelope
Artist not stated in the record · 1944
Absentee ballot sheet
Artist not stated in the record · 1944
Letter to Rachel Walters from Isaac Walters
Artist not stated in the record · November 4, 1864
Letter to Rachel Walters from David Walters
Artist not stated in the record · October 7, 1862
Absentee ballot request postcard
Artist not stated in the record · July 25, 1944
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. 2 matched · 2 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.2 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 40998 matched · 40 examined · 19 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 2026-09-06 18:59 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.