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. 22 shown for “Currier & Ives” — 64 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 01:03 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 Grecian Bend–Fifth Avenue Style
Thomas B. Worth · 1868
The Great Fire at Chicago, Oct. 8th 1871
Currier & Ives · 1871
The Capture of Andre by John Paulding, David Williams and Isaac Van Wart, at Tarrytown, New York, September 23, 1780
Currier & Ives · 1876
Lithograph, "The Darktown Fire Brigade: Slightly Demoralized" (2)
Currier & Ives · ca 1889
A Great Fair on a Grand Scale
Currier & Ives · 1894
Lithograph, "The Darktown Fire Brigade: All on Their Mettle"
Currier & Ives · ca 1889
A "Jib and Mainsail" Race
Currier & Ives · 1882
Lithograph, "The Darktown Fire Brigade: Under Full Steam"
Currier & Ives · ca 1887
My Little White Kitties – Into Mischief
Currier & Ives · 1857–71
Lithograph, "The Darktown Fire Brigade: To the Rescue!" (2)
Currier & Ives · ca 1884
Pussy's Return
Currier & Ives · 1868–78
Lithograph, "The Darktown Fire Brigade: Saved!"
Currier & Ives · ca 1884
The Children's Pic-Nic
Currier & Ives · 1857–71
Lithograph, "The Darktown Hook and Ladder Corps: Going to the Front" (2)
Currier & Ives · ca 1884
A Ride to School
Currier & Ives · 1868–78
Lithograph, "The Darktown Fire Brigade: Hook and Ladder Gymnastics"
Currier & Ives · ca 1887
Central Park in Winter
Currier & Ives · 1868–94
Lithograph, "The Darktown Fire Brigade: To the Rescue!"
Currier & Ives · ca 1884
A Home in the Wilderness
Currier & Ives · 1870
Lithograph, "The Darktown Fire Brigade: Hook and Ladder Gymnastics" (3)
Currier & Ives · ca 1887
Kitty in Clover
Currier & Ives · 1872
Steamboats Passing at Midnight – On Long Island Sound
Currier & Ives · 1868–74
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. 209 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 309 matched · 40 examined · 30 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.10 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 01:03 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.