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 “George Charles Aid, American, 1872–1938” — 24 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 10:05 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.
George Washington and William Lee (George Washington)
John Trumbull · 1780
Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)
Georges Seurat · 1887–88
Benedikt von Hertenstein (born about 1495, died 1522)
Hans Holbein the Younger · 1517
General Washington
Valentine Green · January 15, 1781
Hortensia
Fernand Khnopff · 1884
Bashi-Bazouk
Jean-Léon Gérôme · 1868–69
Letter from George Washington to New York Governor George Clinton
George Washington · 1780
General Washington
Valentine Green · January 15, 1781
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)
Joseph Siffred Duplessis · 1778
A Plan of Operations of the King's Army, under the Command of General Sir William Howe, K.B., in New York and East New Jersey, against the American Forces Commanded by General Washington, From the 12th of October, to the 28th of November 1776...
Claude Joseph Sauthier · February 25, 1777
General Washington
Valentine Green · January 15, 1781
Moonrise at Sunset
Dwight William Tryon · 1890
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. 59 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 10:05 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.