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 “Eight postmasters general vignette portraits” — 45 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 07:09 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
La Berceuse (Woman Rocking a Cradle; Augustine-Alix Pellicot Roulin, 1851–1930)
Vincent van Gogh · 1889
Eight postmasters general vignette portraits
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1855
Mrs. Richard Bache (Sarah Franklin, 1743–1808)
John Hoppner · 1793
Letter of retirement for John T. Jackson
Artist not stated in the record · February 6, 1940
The Harvesters
Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565
Ledger page from Franklin's GPO account book
Artist not stated in the record · April 5, 1770-April 5, 1772
Pennsylvania Magazine or American Monthly Museum
Robert Aitken · January–December 1775
Will H. Hays
Henry Major, 1889 - 1948 · c. 1925
Landscape with Cattle
Jacob van Strij · probably ca. 1800
Joseph Holt
Unidentified Artist · c. 1861-62
John A. J. Cresswell
Mathew B. Brady, 1823? - 15 Jan 1896 · c. 1870
Montgomery Blair
Gregory Stapko, 14 Mar 1913 - 12 Mar 2006 · 1968, after 1845 original
Certificate of appointment for John T. Jackson
Artist not stated in the record · March 23, 1891
John Wanamaker
William Curtis Taylor, active 1863 - 1890 · c. 1889
John Wanamaker
William Curtis Taylor, active 1863 - 1890 · c. 1889
Timothy Pickering
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1806
Timothy Pickering
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 12 Mar 1770 - 23 Jun 1852 · 1806
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. 5 matched · 5 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.5 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 96625 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 2026-09-02 07:09 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.