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. 11 shown for “John Reekie” — 45 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 02:28 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Gardner's Photographic Sketchbook of the War, Volume 2
Alexander Gardner · 1863
Medical Supply Boat, Appomattox Landing, Virginia, from Gardner's Sketchbook of the Civil War
John Reekie, active 1860s · 1865, published 1865
A Burial Party, Cold Harbor, Virginia.
John Reekie · April 1865
Ruins of Gaines' Mill, Virginia, from Gardner's Sketchbook of the Civil War
John Reekie, active 1860s · 1865, published 1865
Gardner's Photographic Sketchbook of the War, Volume 1
Alexander Gardner · 1863
918. Collecting Remains of the Dead
Artist not stated in the record · 1865
![[Wharf, South Side of James River, Opposite Richmond, Virginia], by John Reekie](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDP70523.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[Wharf, South Side of James River, Opposite Richmond, Virginia]
John Reekie · ca. 1865
Oreoweisia bruntonii (Sm.) Milde
Artist not stated in the record · May 1846
Ruins of Richmond & Petersburg Railroad Bridge, Richmond, Virginia
Alexander Gardner · ca. 1865
Grimmia alpicola var. rivularis (Brid.) Wahlenb.
Artist not stated in the record · Apr 1845
Amphidium mougeotii (Bruch & Schimp.) Schimp.
Artist not stated in the record · Apr 1844
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. 5 matched · 5 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.5 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 260417 matched · 40 examined · 34 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.6 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-06 02:28 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.