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 “Free Frank cover from Presidential Widow, Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson” — 44 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 04:07 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
The Triumph of Fame; (reverse) Impresa of the Medici Family and Arms of the Medici and Tornabuoni Families
Giovanni di ser Giovanni Guidi (called Scheggia) · ca. 1449
Free Frank cover from Presidential Widow, Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson
Artist not stated in the record · April 1, 1985
The Natchez
Eugène Delacroix · 1823–24 and 1835
Presidential Widow Free Frank cover
Artist not stated in the record · March 8, 1950
The Wedding of Stephen Beckingham and Mary Cox
William Hogarth · 1729
Presidential Widow Free Frank cover
Artist not stated in the record · August 24, 1940
1807, Friedland
Ernest Meissonier · ca. 1861–75
Free Frank cover
Artist not stated in the record · 1869-1873
Pinback button for Kennedy - Johnson 1960 presidential campaign
Artist not stated in the record · 1960
Lyndon B. Johnson
Oscar White, born 1921 · c. 1965
Lyndon B. Johnson
Cecil Stoughton, 18 Jan 1920 - 3 Nov 2008 · 1963
Free Frank cover
Artist not stated in the record · June 10
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. 4 matched · 4 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.4 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1032104 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 04:07 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.