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. 24 shown for “Allen, Edwin” — 64 records examined, 31 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-08 09:36 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Edwin Cowles, The Cleveland Leader, from the American Editors series (N35) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes
Allen & Ginter · 1887
Patent Model for a Sheet-Feed Apparatus
Allen, Edwin · ca 1863
Edwin Bibby, Wrestler, from World's Champions, Series 2 (N29) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes
Allen & Ginter · 1888
Undenom Allen's City Dispatch single
Artist not stated in the record · 1882
Edwin Bibby, Catch as Catch Can- Wrestler, from World's Champions, Second Series (N43) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes
Allen & Ginter · 1888
Undenom Allen's City Dispatch single
Artist not stated in the record · 1882
Edwin Cowles, The Cleveland Leader, from the American Editors series (N1) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands
Allen & Ginter · 1887
Patent model with improvements on envelope-making machines
Artist not stated in the record · August 11, 1874
Edwin Booth, from the Actresses and Celebrities series (N60, Type 1) promoting Little Beauties Cigarettes for Allen & Ginter brand tobacco products
Allen & Ginter · 1887
Chara zeylanica var. elegans (A. Braun ex Allen) van Raam
Artist not stated in the record
Saint Sebastian
Alessandro Vittoria (Alessandro Vittoria di Vigilio della Volpa) · 1566
Persea hintonii C.K. Allen
Artist not stated in the record · 28 Feb 1907
Box with portrait of a young girl with the initials DE
Pierre-Adolphe Hall · 1775–76
Sales Receipt
Artist not stated in the record · 1853
Cider Making
William Sidney Mount · 1840–41
Society of American Artists, Jury of 1890
Unidentified Artist · 1890
Hannah Mahady
Jeremiah Meyer · ca. 1760
Edwin Markham
C. Yarnall Abbott, 1870 - 1938 · c. 1905
Portrait of an Officer
D. B.
Edwin Herbert Land
Samuel Johnson Woolf, 12 Feb 1880 - 3 Dec 1948 · 1941
The Colonies Reduced; Its Companion, designed and engraved for The Political Register
Benjamin Franklin · December 1768
Edwin Forrest
Unidentified Artist · c. 1840
F.W. Dawson, The Charleston News and Courier, from the American Editors series (N1) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands
Allen & Ginter · 1887
Edwin Markham
Unidentified Artist · c. 1899
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. 56 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. 33256 matched · 40 examined · 27 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 09:36 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.