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 “John Trumbull, born Lebanon, CT 1756-died New York City 1843” — 14 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 17:54 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.
Thomas Jefferson
John Trumbull · 1788
George Washington before the Battle of Trenton
John Trumbull · ca. 1792–94
Thomas Mifflin
John Trumbull · ca. 1790
The Sortie Made by the Garrison of Gibraltar
John Trumbull · 1789
George Washington and William Lee (George Washington)
John Trumbull · 1780
The Surrender of General Burgoyne at Saratoga, New York, October 17th, 1777
Otto Knirsch · 1852
John Murray
John Trumbull · ca. 1806
Mrs. John Murray
John Trumbull · ca. 1806
The Battle of Bunker's Hill (June 17, 1775)
Johann Gotthard Müller · 1788–98
The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America, July 4, 1776
Asher Brown Durand · 1823
Brigadier General John Glover
Henry Bryan Hall, Sr. · 19th century
Hugh Williamson, M.D., L.L.D. (1735–1819)
Asher Brown Durand · 1821
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. 14 matched · 14 examined · 1 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 2026-09-01 17:54 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.