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. 13 shown for “Delaware Artist” — 64 records examined, 49 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 05:00 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Shoulder bag
Delaware Artist · ca. 1840
Red Lion Camp Meeting by Alfred Thompson Scott (artist) and P.S. Duval and Company (lithographers)
Scott, Alfred T. · 1853
Washington Crossing the Delaware
Emanuel Leutze · 1851
"Winter" Needlework Picture
Hannah Jane Robinson · 1819
Tongs
Thomas McConnell · ca. 1800
Portrait of a Lady
Adolph Ulrich Wertmuller · ca. 1805
George Washington
Adolph Ulrich Wertmuller · 1795
John Eliot Preaching to the Indians
Felix Octavius Carr Darley
Self-portrait
John Singleton Copley · 1769
The Princess Dwells in the Oak Tree Where ye Wild Pigeons Come to Feed Her, for "The Wonder Clock"
Howard Pyle · 1887
Delaware Water Gap
George Inness · 1861
The Delaware Valley
George Inness · ca. 1863
Washington Crossing the Delaware
Robert Lovett · 18th–19th century
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. 206 matched · 24 examined · 10 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. 71601 matched · 40 examined · 39 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.1 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 05:00 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.