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 “Carte-de-visite of a man” — 40 records examined, 23 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 18:41 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.
Carte-de-visite of a man riding a burro in Lima, Peru
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870
Carte-de-visite of a man seated
Unidentified · 1865-1870s
Carte-de-visite of a man with walking stick, hat, and jacket
Unidentified · 1865-1870s
Carte-de-visite of a man
Unidentified · 1860s
Carte-de-visite of a man
Artist not stated in the record · 1880s
Carte-de-visite of a man
Unidentified · 1880s
Carte-de-visite of a young man in Napa, California
Artist not stated in the record · 1865-1888
Carte-de-visite of a young man
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880
Carte-de-visite of a young man wearing a long overcoat in Napa, California
Artist not stated in the record · 1865-1866
Carte-de-visite of a young mustachioed man in Napa, California
Artist not stated in the record · 1865-1888
Carte-de-visite of a Buffalo Soldier from the 24th Infantry Regiment
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1886
Photograph of a man with a beard wearing a dark colored suit and vest
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century - early 20th century
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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 6996 matched · 40 examined · 23 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 2026-09-04 18:41 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.