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. 12 shown for “Francis Bicknell Carpenter, 1830 - 1900” — 40 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 12:05 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Unidentified Woman
Francis Bicknell Carpenter, 1830 - 1900 · 1852
Abraham Lincoln
J. H. Bufford Lithography Company, active 1835 - 1890 · c. 1865
Abraham Lincoln
Francis Bicknell Carpenter, 1830 - 1900 · 1864
Salmon P. Chase
Leopold Grozelier, 1830 - 1865 · 1855
Abraham Lincoln
Frederick W. Halpin, 1805 - 1880 · 1866
Abraham Lincoln
Frederick W. Halpin, 1805 - 1880 · 1866
Abraham Lincoln and Family
Unidentified Artist · c. 1866
Salmon P. Chase
Francis Bicknell Carpenter, 1830 - 1900 · 1861
The First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation before the Cabinet
Alexander Hay Ritchie, 21 Jan 1822 - 19 Sep 1895 · 1866
The First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation before the Cabinet
Alexander Hay Ritchie, 21 Jan 1822 - 19 Sep 1895 · 1866
Helianthemum propinquum E.P. Bicknell
Artist not stated in the record · 4 Aug 1909
Sisyrinchium corymbosum E.P. Bicknell
Artist not stated in the record · 27 Jan 1918
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. The archive returned no records for this term.0 matched - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 677543 matched · 40 examined · 5 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 2026-09-04 12:05 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.