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. 14 shown for “Emile Gsell” — 64 records examined, 38 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 11:33 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Enterrement, Cochinchine
Emile Gsell · 1866
Achillea oxyloba (DC.) Sch. Bip.
Artist not stated in the record
Marchands de Fruits, Cochinchine
Emile Gsell · 1866
Athamanta cretensis L.
Artist not stated in the record
Matas (Miliciens indigènes)
Emile Gsell · 1866
Tombeau de l'Evêque d'Adran
Emile Gsell · 1866
Vue de l'Etablissement des Messageries Impériales
Emile Gsell · 1866
Riche Annamite montant à cheval, Cochinchine
Emile Gsell · 1866
Cortège d'un mariage, Cochinchine
Emile Gsell · 1866
Costumes de Théâtre, Saïgon, Cochinchine
Emile Gsell · 1866
Femme Annamite, Saïgon, Cochinchine
Emile Gsell · 1866
Bonzes de la Pagoda Chinoise (Cholen), Saïgon, Cochinchine
Emile Gsell · 1866
Prisonniers conduits par un Mata, Cochinchine
Emile Gsell · 1866
Cérémonie religieuse dans la Pagode Chinoise de Cholen, Saïgon, Cochinchine
Emile Gsell · 1866
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. 50 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. 3101 matched · 40 examined · 38 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.2 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 11:33 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.