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 patriotic cover” — 24 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 03:16 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.
Century Vase
Karl L. H. Müller · 1877
Front and back covers printed on the same sheet for patriotic discourses
José Guadalupe Posada · ca. 1900–1910
Front and back covers printed on the same sheet for patriotic discourses
José Guadalupe Posada · ca. 1900–1910
The "Kearsarge" at Boulogne
Edouard Manet · 1864
Photographic Views of Sherman's Campaign
George N. Barnard · 1860s
Smallsword Hilt and Scabbard Mounts
James Morisset · hallmarked for 1797–98
Colt Third Model Dragoon Percussion Revolver, serial no. 12406
Samuel Colt · ca. 1853
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)
Joseph Siffred Duplessis · 1778
Joan of Arc
Jules Bastien-Lepage · 1879
A View of the Present Seat of War, at and Near New York, in An Astronomical Diary; or, Almanack for the year of Christian Æra, 1777
Nathaniel Low · 1776
Allegorical Figure Representing America
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo
The Patriotick Barber of New York, or the Captain in the Suds
Philip Dawe · February 14, 1775
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. 51 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 03:16 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.