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. 10 shown for “Charles Magnus & Company” — 10 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 15:54 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
New York and Brooklyn Bridge Entrance
Charles Magnus & Company · after 1885
Castle Garden Landing for Emigrants, Barge Office, Battery
Charles Magnus & Company · 1850–1900
Chatham Square
Charles Magnus & Company · 1850–1900
Chatham Square Elevated Railroad Crossing
Charles Magnus & Company · 1850–1900
Broadway at 42nd Street, New York
Charles Magnus & Company · 1850–1900
Post Office, Broadway, Hudson River and Jersey Shore
Charles Magnus & Company · after 1878
Coenties Slip, New York.--Down Town Export and Import Trading
Charles Magnus & Company · 1850–1900
Broadway and 6th Avenue Junction. 33rd St. Elevated R.R. Station
Charles Magnus & Company · 1850–1900
City Hall Park, Broadway, from Park Place to Chambers Street (West Section of the City, Hudson River and Jersey Shore)
Charles Magnus & Company · 1850–1900
New York, to Estimate its Present Grandeur Look at our 50 Illustrations of the City in Color...and acquaint your Friends with the actual features of the Metropolis of America.
Charles Magnus & Company · 1850–1900
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. 10 matched · 10 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.10 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. The archive returned no records for this term.0 matched
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 15:54 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.