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 US Representative Tom DeLay to Carl Lewis” — 64 records examined, 21 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 04:01 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Schloss Milkel in Moonlight
Carl Gustav Carus · ca. 1833–35
Letter from US Representative Tom DeLay to Carl Lewis
Artist not stated in the record · August 27, 1996
The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment
Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38
Letter from US Representative Kenneth E. Bentsen, Jr. to Carl Lewis
Artist not stated in the record · August 14, 1996
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Two Angels
Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440
Letter from US Senator Phil Gramm to Carl Lewis
Artist not stated in the record · August 1, 1996
L'Arlésienne: Madame Joseph-Michel Ginoux (Marie Julien, 1848–1911)
Vincent van Gogh · 1888–89
Letter from Vice President Al Gore and his wife Tipper Gore to Carl Lewis
Artist not stated in the record · December 16, 2000
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints
Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1504
Telegram to John Jordan, September 5, 1918
Artist not stated in the record · September 5, 1918
Christ Bearing the Cross
North Netherlandish (Bruges) Painter
Letter to US Representative from VT
Artist not stated in the record · 1861
Christ Blessing, Surrounded by a Donor Family
German Painter · ca. 1573–82
Letter carrier band uniform hat
Artist not stated in the record · mid 20th-late 20th Century
The Creation of the World and the Expulsion from Paradise
Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia) · 1445
Letter carrier band uniform cap
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1958
The Monet Family in Their Garden at Argenteuil
Edouard Manet · 1874
Telegram
Artist not stated in the record · 1918
Portrait of a Man
Velázquez · ca. 1650
Telegram
Artist not stated in the record · 1918
Juan de Pareja (ca. 1608–1670)
Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) · 1650
Letter carrier band uniform hat
Artist not stated in the record · mid 20th-late 20th Century
Portia
Sir John Everett Millais · 1886
Letter to US Representative from VT
Artist not stated in the record · 1863
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. 41 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 1350473 matched · 40 examined · 18 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 04:01 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.