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. 12 shown for “Albumen photograph of Wild West Performers” — 24 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 05:51 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.
Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary)
Paul Gauguin · 1891
Ruins of Gallego Flour Mills, Richmond
Alexander Gardner · 1865
Zoe, Maid of Athens
Julia Margaret Cameron · 1866
The Temple of Dendur
Artist not stated in the record · completed by 10 CE
Section of the Grizzly Giant with Galen Clark, Mariposa Grove, Yosemite
Carleton E. Watkins · 1865–66, printed ca. 1876
The Queen and Prince Consort
John Jabez Edwin Mayall · 1860
![[Carte-de-Visite Album of British and European Royalty], by F. Joubert](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDP333840.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[Carte-de-Visite Album of British and European Royalty]
F. Joubert · 1860s–70s
View on the Columbia, Cascades
Carleton E. Watkins · 1867
The Town on the Hill, New Almaden
Carleton E. Watkins · 1863
Black Cañon, From Camp 8, Looking Above
Timothy H. O'Sullivan · 1871
Cape Horn near Celilo
Carleton E. Watkins · 1867
West Front - Peterboro
Alfred Capel Cure · 1856
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. 181 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 05:51 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.