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 envelope shipping lists” — 55 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-31 21:41 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Sampler
Laura Hyde · 1800
American Bank Note Company envelope shipping lists
Artist not stated in the record · December 15, 1883
View near Rouen
Richard Parkes Bonington · ca. 1825
American Bank Note Company envelope shipping lists
Artist not stated in the record · December 15, 1883
Madonna and Child
Filippino Lippi · ca. 1483–84
Printing instructions for envelopes in letter
Artist not stated in the record · December 15, 1883
Clipper Ship "Dreadnought" off Sandy Hook, February 23, 1854, nineteen days from Liverpool
James E. Buttersworth · 1854
Acknowledgment receipt of shipment of envelopes
Artist not stated in the record · June 14, 1884
Clipper Ship "Great Republic"
Joseph B. Smith · 1855
Order for printing of 1882 stamp issue and postal cards
Artist not stated in the record · April 10, 1882
The Constitution and Guerriere Fought August 19th, 1812: The Guerriere had 15 men killed and 63 wounded. The Constitution had 7 men killed and 7 wounded
Nathaniel Currier · 1848
Order for printing of 1882 stamp issue and postal cards in letter
Artist not stated in the record · April 10, 1882
Clipper Ship "Contest"
Frances Flora Bond Palmer · 1853
2c Honolulu Harbor envelope mockup
American Bank Note Company · 1884
Burning of the Henry Clay Near Yonkers–While on Her Trip From Albany to New York on Wednesday Afternoon July 28th, 1852.–The rapid spread of the flames forced the passengers into the water. Mothers and children, husbands and wives, brothers and sisters were drowned together, whilst trying to save each other. Little children buffetted the waves in vain for a few moments, and then sunk to rise no more. Persons on board about 500, of which number nearly 100 are supposed to have perished.
Nathaniel Currier · 1852
Order for printing of 1c and 2c stamp
Artist not stated in the record · July 30, 1884
Clipper Ship "Dreadnought" off Tuskar Light, 12 1/2 Days from New York on her Celebrated Passage into Dock of Liverpool in 13 Days 11 Hours, December 1854
Charles Parsons · 1856
Order for printing of 1c and 2c stamp
Artist not stated in the record · July 30, 1884
"Four-in-Hand"
Louis Maurer · 1861
Envelopes to be printed in memo
Artist not stated in the record · September 6, 1883
The Government House, New York
Charles Currier · 1850–65
6c Proprietary general issue revenue stamp plate proof
Artist not stated in the record · 1875-1883
The Inauguration of Washington as First President of the United States, April 30th 1789 – At the Old City Hall, New York – The oath of office was administered by Chancellor Livingston of the State of New York – Mr. Otis the Secretary of the Senate holding up the Bible on a crimson cushion
Currier & Ives · 1876
Stampless Transpacific cover
Artist not stated in the record · 1852
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. 15 matched · 15 examined · 2 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. 7478187 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 2026-08-31 21:41 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.