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 to A. H. Markland” — 64 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-31 23:46 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
The Letter
Camille Corot · ca. 1865
Letter to A. H. Markland from Deputy Quartermaster General
Artist not stated in the record · 1874
Heqanakht Letter I
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1961–1917 B.C.
Letter to A. H. Markland
Artist not stated in the record · 1862
A Hunting Scene
Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio) · ca. 1494–1500
Letter to A. H. Markland from Second Assistant PMG McCellan
Artist not stated in the record · 1864
The Love Letter
Jean Honoré Fragonard · early 1770s
US Army Quartermaster's Department letter
Artist not stated in the record · November 1, 1862
First Arabesque Penchée
Edgar Degas · modeled probably before 1890, cast 1920
V-Mail letter sheet
Artist not stated in the record · July 20, 1944
Spanish Dancer (Second State)
Edgar Degas · modeled probably ca. 1884, cast 1920
Agrostis scabra Willd.
Artist not stated in the record · 22 Aug 1921
Woman Having Her Hair Combed
Edgar Degas · ca. 1886–88
Plantago maritima L.
Artist not stated in the record · 22 Aug 1921
The Letter
Pietro Longhi (Pietro Falca) · 1746
Plantago maritima L.
Artist not stated in the record · 22 Aug 1921
Horse Trotting, the Feet Not Touching the Ground
Edgar Degas · modeled after 1878, cast 1920
V-Mail letter sheet
Artist not stated in the record · July 20, 1944
Woman Stretching
Edgar Degas · modeled probably ca. 1884–89, cast 1920
Letter written by Union occupation soldier John Stagenwalt
Artist not stated in the record · August 16, 1868
Dancer Looking at the Sole of Her Right Foot (Fourth State)
Edgar Degas · modeled before ca. 1895–1900, cast 1920
Letter to H. W. Corbett from Special Agent Brooks
Artist not stated in the record · 1866
Woman Getting out of the Bath
Edgar Degas · modeled probably ca. 1890 or later, cast 1920
Letter to John Copeland from his wife Ann
Artist not stated in the record · February 18, 1861
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. 1966 matched · 24 examined · 0 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. 2856106 matched · 40 examined · 8 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 2026-08-31 23:46 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.