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 “Confederate mourning cover” — 40 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 01:05 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.
Confederate mourning cover
Artist not stated in the record · December 22, 1863
Confederate mourning cover
Artist not stated in the record · May 14, 1861
10c Jefferson Davis on mourning cover
Artist not stated in the record · 1863-1865
Confederate patriotic envelope
Artist not stated in the record · 1861-1865
Confederate Prisoner-of-War Cover
Artist not stated in the record · Postmark: April 16, 1863
Confederate patriotic cover
Artist not stated in the record · November 22, 1861
Confederate patriotic Valentine cover
Artist not stated in the record · February 14, 1863
3c Washington on Confederate Civil War Patriotic cover
Artist not stated in the record · 1861-1865
Confederate handstamp Paid 10
Artist not stated in the record · September 10, [1861]
Confederate Civil War Patriotic cover
Artist not stated in the record · 1861-1865
Confederate handstamped paid
Artist not stated in the record · October 16, 1861
Confederate handstamp Paid 5
Artist not stated in the record · July 19, 1861
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. 37996 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 2026-09-01 01:05 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.