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 “Letter from Josheph Johnson” — 64 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 15:24 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Boy with a Sword
Edouard Manet · 1861
Letter from Josheph Johnson
Artist not stated in the record
Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary)
Paul Gauguin · 1891
Folded Letter
Artist not stated in the record · November 16, 1847
Wheat Field with Cypresses
Vincent van Gogh · 1889
Letter to Mr. Carroll Wilson from Countee Cullen
Artist not stated in the record · April, 25 1928
The Abduction of Rebecca
Eugène Delacroix · 1846
Letter
Artist not stated in the record · June 26, 1847
Saint John on Patmos
Hans Baldung (called Hans Baldung Grien) · ca. 1511
World War II postcard
Artist not stated in the record · September 18, 1945
Christ Blessing
Gerard David · ca. 1500–1505
Andrew Johnson cover
Artist not stated in the record · 1865-1869
Teapot
Gorham Manufacturing Company · ca. 1865
Letter
Artist not stated in the record · March 18, 1848
Portrait of a Man
Andrea del Sarto (Andrea d'Agnolo) · 1528–29
Free Frank cover from Presidential Widow, Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson
Artist not stated in the record · April 1, 1985
Self-Portrait with a Straw Hat (obverse: The Potato Peeler)
Vincent van Gogh · 1887
List of the first airmail mechanics and pilots
Artist not stated in the record · 1918
Christ Asleep during the Tempest
Eugène Delacroix · ca. 1853
Letter
Artist not stated in the record · December 2, 1847
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[Unidentified Man Wearing Turban]
Southworth and Hawes · 1851–52
Letter written to Cave Johnson
Artist not stated in the record · July 10, 1845
Margaret Fuller (Marchioness Ossoli)
Southworth and Hawes · ca. 1850
James Johnson
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1818
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. 155 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 444778 matched · 40 examined · 23 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 2026-09-06 15:24 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.