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. 7 shown for “Alfred Rudolph Waud, born London, England 1828-died Marietta, GA 1891” — 7 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 17:05 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Our Young Folks, an Illustrated Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. III, Nos. I-XII
John Townsend Trowbridge · 1867
Reminiscences of the Maryland Campaign, from Harper's Weekly, August 16, 1863
Alfred Rudolph Waud, born London, England 1828-died Marietta, GA 1891 · 1863
Evacuation Day Parade of First Division, New York State Militia, newspaper illustration
Alfred Rudolf Waud · 1866
View from Maryland Heights, from Harper's History of the Great Rebellion
Alfred Rudolph Waud, born London, England 1828-died Marietta, GA 1891 · 1862
The First Maine Cavalry Skirmishing
Alfred Rudolf Waud · 1845–91
Signal Station, Summit of Maryland Heights, from Harper's History of the Great Rebellion
Alfred Rudolph Waud, born London, England 1828-died Marietta, GA 1891 · 1862
Our Army before Yorktown, Virginia, from Harper's Weekly, May 3, 1862
Winslow Homer, born Boston, MA 1836-died Prout's Neck, ME 1910 · 1862
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. 3 matched · 3 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.3 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 4 matched · 4 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.4 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-06 17:05 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.