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. 17 shown for “John P. Doremus, American, 1827 - 1890” — 64 records examined, 43 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 06:29 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Portrait of an Old Woman
Jacob Backer
Tintype of a woman
John P. Doremus, American, 1827 - 1890 · 1870s
Winchester Model 1886 Takedown Rifle decorated by Tiffany & Co. (serial no. 120528)
Winchester Repeating Arms Company · 1899–1900
Encampment at Sea Girt
John P. Doremus · 1886
The Death of Socrates
Jacques Louis David · 1787
Doremus lamppost mailbox
Reading Stove Works · Patent date: 1894
Grainfields
Jacob van Ruisdael · mid- or late 1660s
Scheble-style mailbox
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1900-1930
Design for Landau, No. 4079
Brewster & Co. · 1890
Photograph of letter carrier collecting mail
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1890
Half Panel Cutter #3806 - 22147 (record)
Brewster & Co. · 1883
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836)
Jacques Louis David · 1788
Brougham #4073
Brewster & Co. · 1890
Design for Landau, No. 4100
Brewster & Co. · 1890
Design for Landau, No. 4061
Brewster & Co. · 1890
Design for Landau, No. 4057a
Brewster & Co. · 1890
Design for Landau, No. 4059
Brewster & Co. · 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. 76 matched · 24 examined · 8 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. 2133088 matched · 40 examined · 35 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.5 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 06:29 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.