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 “Charles Currier” — 64 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 10:40 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 Government House, New York
Charles Currier · 1850–65
Possibly E. L. Snow
Francis D'Avignon, 29 Oct 1813 - c. 1871 · c. 1847
The Grecian Bend–Fifth Avenue Style
Thomas B. Worth · 1868
Yankee Locke
John L. Magee, active 1844 - 1867 · c. 1860
The Bark "Theoxena"
Latour · ca.1850
Black Hawk
John Cameron, active 1848 - 1872 · 1836
The Surrender of General Burgoyne at Saratoga, New York, October 17th, 1777
Otto Knirsch · 1852
Grand National Republican Banner
Nathaniel Currier, 27 Mar 1813 - 20 Nov 1888 · 1866
The Capture of Andre by John Paulding, David Williams and Isaac Van Wart, at Tarrytown, New York, September 23, 1780
Currier & Ives · 1876
Grand Banner of the Radical Democracy for 1864
Currier & Ives Lithography Company, active 1857 - 1907 · 1864
Cutter Yacht "Scud" of Philadelphia – Modelled by Robert L. Stevens, Esq.
Charles Parsons · 1855
Hyetographic Map
Cameron, John · 1854
Central Park, Winter – The Skating Pond
Charles Parsons · 1862
The Progress of Intemperance by Nathaniel Currier
Currier, Nathaniel · 1841
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
Missionary Society Certificate by Nathaniel Currier
Currier, Nathaniel · 1848
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
General Tom Thumb, Lavinia Warren Stratton, Commodore Nutt and Minnie Warren
Currier & Ives Lithography Company, active 1857 - 1907 · 1863
The Express Train
Charles Parsons · 1859
The Death of Charles Sumner
Currier & Ives Lithography Company, active 1857 - 1907 · 1874
The Express Train
Charles Parsons · 1859
American Field Sports. "On a Point."
Charles Parsons, born Rowland's Castle, England 1821-died New York City 1910 · 1857
Yacht "Puritan" of Boston
Charles Richard Parsons · 1885
The Death-Bed of the Martyr President, Abraham Lincoln
Currier & Ives Lithography Company, active 1857 - 1907 · 1865
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. 204 matched · 24 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. 127836 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 2026-08-27 10:40 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.