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. 24 shown for “James Fenimore Cooper” — 64 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 00:51 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 National Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Americans, Vol. I
James Herring · 1834
James Fenimore Cooper
Julien Leopold Boilly, 1796 - 1874 · 1831
Bust of James Fenimore Cooper
Pierre Joseph Chardigny · 1853
James Fenimore Cooper
Oliver Pelton, 1798 - 1882 · 1838
James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851), American novelist
Pierre Jean David d'Angers · 19th century
James Fenimore Cooper
Amélie Kautz De Lacepede, 1796 - 1860 · c. 1827
The Cooper Vignettes
James Fenimore Cooper · 1862
James Fenimore Cooper
Amélie Kautz De Lacepede, 1796 - 1860 · c. 1830-40
Leatherstocking's Rescue
John Quidor · 1832
James Fenimore Cooper
Jacques Reich, 10 Aug 1852 - 8 Jul 1923 · c. 1899-1920
Doge Alvise Mocenigo (1507–1577) Presented to the Redeemer
Jacopo Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti) · probably 1577
James Fenimore Cooper
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860
John Eliot Preaching to the Indians
Felix Octavius Carr Darley
Celebrated Authors
Jacques Llanta, 1807 - 1864 · 1833
James Fenimore Cooper, from the series Great Americans (N76) for Duke brand cigarettes
W. Duke, Sons & Co. · 1888
2c James Fenimore Cooper plate proof
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Mrs. Joseph Cooper (Mary Justice)
James Peale · 1797
Our Great Authors
Thomas S. Sinclair, c. 1805 - 1881 · 1865
Nécessaire
James Cox · ca. 1770–72
Washington Irving and his Literary Friends at Sunnyside
Christian Schussele, 16 Apr 1824 - 1879 · 1864
Farm Landscape (from McGuire Scrapbook)
Thomas Sidney Cooper
The Last of the Tribes
Hiram Powers, born Woodstock, VT 1805-died Florence, Italy 1873 · modeled 1867-1872, carved 1876-1877
Study of a Boy (from McGuire Scrapbook)
Thomas Sidney Cooper
Ceiling paper
Wilson and Fenimore · 1875–1900
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. 246 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. 182498 matched · 40 examined · 24 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 2026-09-01 00:51 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.