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 “Damascus Room” — 57 records examined, 21 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 16:02 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Damascus Room
Artist not stated in the record · dated 1119 AH/1707 CE
View Towards Damascus, Syria
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · April 24–May 16, 1868
Dish Depicting Two Birds among Flowering Plants
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1575–90
Architectural Sketches, Damascus, Syria
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · May 1, 1868
Window
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century
Damascus, View from the Mountains
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · May 1868
Window
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
Distant View of Damascus, Syria
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · May 2, 1868
Window
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
Damascus, Syria
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · April 29 and May 2, 1868
Window
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
Damascus to Cairo cover on album page
Artist not stated in the record · October 22, 1918
Window
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century
Damascus to Alexandria cover on album page
Artist not stated in the record · February 1, 1919
Window
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century
Damascus to Cairo cover on album page
Artist not stated in the record · November 5, 1918
Window
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
Damascus to Alexandria cover on album page
Artist not stated in the record · January 29, 1919
Window
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
Damascus to Alexandria cover on album page
Artist not stated in the record · December 14, 1918
Window
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
View of Damascus from the Wadi Barada, Syria, Part One
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · April–May 1868
Window
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
View of Damascus from the Wadi Barada, Syria, Part Two
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · April–May 1868
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. 17 matched · 17 examined · 1 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. 3620 matched · 40 examined · 20 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 2026-08-26 16:02 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.