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 “Carl Bechstein” — 41 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 00:13 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Grand Piano
Carl Bechstein · ca. 1893
Carl Ethan Akeley
Unidentified Artist · c. 1922
Carl Wimar Self-Portrait
Carl Wimar, 19 Feb 1828 - 28 Nov 1862 · c. 1850-62
Carl Schurz
Unidentified Artist · c. 1860
Carl Schurz
Napoleon Sarony, 9 Mar 1821 - 9 Nov 1896 · c. 1876
Carl Schurz
José María Mora, c. 1847 - 18 Oct 1926 · c. 1870
Sadakichi Hartmann
Louis Fleckenstein, 2 Jan 1866 - 9 Apr 1943 · c. 1915
Played Out
Thomas Nast, 27 Sep 1840 - 7 Dec 1902 · June 15, 1872
Secretary of War Investigating the Indian Bureau
Thomas Nast, 27 Sep 1840 - 7 Dec 1902 · January 26, 1878
Carl Van Vechten
Ralph Barton, 14 Aug 1891 - 19 May 1931 · c. 1923
Sadakichi Hartmann
Zaida Ben-Yusuf, 21 Nov 1869 - 27 Sep 1933 · 1898
Carl Wimar
Unidentified Artist · c. 1860
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 · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.1 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 39100 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 00:13 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.