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. 12 shown for “Caleb Cushing” — 41 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 13:20 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Caleb Cushing
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70
Caleb Cushing
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70
Caleb Cushing
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70
Caleb Cushing
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70
5c red brown Franklin on cover
Rawdon, Wright, Hatch & Edson · July 1, 1847
Free Frank cover
Artist not stated in the record · October 1860
Congressional Free Frank cover
Artist not stated in the record · September 8
Free Frank cover
Artist not stated in the record · February 3
George Caleb Bingham Self-Portrait
George Caleb Bingham, 20 Mar 1811 - 7 Jul 1879 · c. 1849-50
Caleb Strong
Tappan & Bradford Lithography Company, active 1848 - 1854 · c. 1853-54
Caleb Strong
John Norman, c. 1748 - 1817 · 1812
Caleb Swan
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1799
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. 1 matched · 1 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.0 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 4437 matched · 40 examined · 24 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 2026-09-02 13:20 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.