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 “American Bank Note Company” — 64 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-31 19:56 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Bank
Boston & Sandwich Glass Company · 1833–50
2c Diamond Head specimen severed postal reply card
American Bank Note Company · 1889
Merry Company on a Terrace
Jan Steen · ca. 1670
2c Map of Pacific specimen postal card
American Bank Note Company · 1894
Our Young Folks, an Illustrated Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. III, Nos. I-XII
John Townsend Trowbridge · 1867
2c Diamond Head specimen severed postal reply card
American Bank Note Company · 1889
Specimen Sheet of Bank Note Engraving
Asher Brown Durand · ca. 1828
1c Iolani Palace specimen postal card
American Bank Note Company · 1894
Vase
Louis C. Tiffany · ca. 1900
Order for printing of 1882 stamp issue and postal cards
Artist not stated in the record · April 10, 1882
American Bank Notes of various denominations
Asher Brown Durand · 1828–31
2c Queen Liliuokalani specimen severed postal reply card
American Bank Note Company · 1889
The Thomas Hunt and the America
James Bard · 1852
2c Queen Liliuokalani specimen severed postal reply card
American Bank Note Company · 1889
The Beeches
Asher Brown Durand · 1845
American Bank Note Company envelope shipping lists
Artist not stated in the record · December 15, 1883
Gold-inlaid Colt Model 1851 Navy Revolver (serial no. 20133), with Case and Accessories
Samuel Colt · ca. 1853
12c S.S. Arawa order for stamps
Artist not stated in the record · August 16, 1894
Gold-inlaid Colt Model 1849 Pocket Revolver (serial no. 63306)
Samuel Colt · ca. 1853
American Bank Note Company envelope shipping lists
Artist not stated in the record · December 15, 1883
Sand Bank with Willows, Magnolia
William Morris Hunt · 1877
2c Washington imprint block of fifty
American Bank Note Company · 1890
Milk Pot
John C. Moore · 1850
1c Franklin imprint block of fifty
American Bank Note Company · 1890
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. 865 matched · 24 examined · 9 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. 7478052 matched · 40 examined · 11 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 2026-08-31 19:56 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.