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. 14 shown for “Boudoir cabinet card of convict laborers at Swannanoa Cut” — 42 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-30 10:32 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
The Outer Harbor of Brest
Henri Joseph van Blarenberghe · 1773
Boudoir cabinet card of convict laborers at Swannanoa Cut
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1885
Juan de Pareja (ca. 1608–1670)
Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) · 1650
Cabinet card of a newspaper carrier
Unidentified · mid to late 19th century
Boudoir photograph of Buffalo Soldiers escorting a stage coach
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1890
Cabinet photograph of black man holding a white baby
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1885
Interior with a Curtained Bed Alcove
Unknown, Austrian · ca. 1853
Cabinet card of two young children
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1890
Picture postcard of a North Carolina Convict Camp
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1910
No. 64 - Cutting Sugar Cane.
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1900
No. 86, Picking Cotton
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1895
Albumen print of U. S. Colored Troops at Ft. Douglas
Artist not stated in the record · 1896-1899
Cabinet card portrait of a woman identified as a cook
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th-early 20th century
Cabinet card of Col. Charles Young as a cadet at West Point
Pach Brothers, American, founded 1867 · 1889
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. 2 matched · 2 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.2 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 2939336 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 2026-08-30 10:32 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.