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. 17 shown for “Edwin Forbes, born New York City 1839-died Brooklyn, NY 1895” — 27 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 18:14 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Workbook Recording the Engraved Firearms Ornament of Louis D. Nimschke (1832–1904)
Louis Daniel Nimschke · ca. 1850–1900
Invasion of Maryland, 1864--Driving Off Cattle and Plunder taken from Farmers by Early's Cavalry, from "The Soldier in Our Civil War"
Edwin Forbes, born New York City 1839-died Brooklyn, NY 1895 · 1864
Hearth and Home
Pettengil, Bates & Co. · 1868–70
The War in Maryland, from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, October 4, 1862
Edwin Forbes, born New York City 1839-died Brooklyn, NY 1895 · 1862
Triumph of Patriotism– Washington Entering New York, 25 November 1783
Alexander Hay Ritchie · 1858
Battle of Antietam--Burnside's Division, Left Wing--Brilliant and Decisive Bayonet Charge of Hawkins's Zouaves, Colonel Kimball on the Rebel Battery on the Hill, Right Bank of the Antietam Creek near Sharpsburg, on the Afternoon of September 17--Utter Rout of the Rebels. From a Sketch by Our Special Artist, Mr. Edwin Forbes.
Edwin Forbes, born New York City 1839-died Brooklyn, NY 1895 · 1862
The Forest in Winter at Sunset
Théodore Rousseau · ca. 1846–67
Colonel De Heer Abraham De Peyster
George Edwin Bissell, born New Preston, CT 1839-died Mount Vernon, NY 1920 · modeled ca. 1893
The Grand Display of Fireworks and Illuminations at the Opening of the Great Suspension Bridge between New York and Brooklyn on the Evening of May 24, 1883. View from New York Looking towards Brooklyn.
Currier & Ives · 1883
Major General John Watts De Peyster
George Edwin Bissell, born New Preston, CT 1839-died Mount Vernon, NY 1920 · modeled ca. 1897
Yacht "Puritan" of Boston
Charles Richard Parsons · 1885
Double Chromatic Harp
Henry Greenway · after 1895
Cypresses
Vincent van Gogh · 1889
Gardanne
Paul Cézanne · 1885–86
Landscape – Fruit and Flowers
Frances Flora Bond Palmer · 1862
The Agony in the Garden
Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1504
The Horse Fair
Rosa Bonheur · 1852–55
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. 21 matched · 21 examined · 7 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. 6 matched · 6 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.5 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-06 18:14 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.