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 Dorothy Porter from W.C. Handy” — 64 records examined, 9 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 11:18 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 Coronation of the Virgin
Annibale Carracci · after 1595
Letter to Dorothy Porter from W.C. Handy
Artist not stated in the record · March 1, 1939
Boy with a Sword
Edouard Manet · 1861
Saint Louis Blues
Artist not stated in the record · 1914
The Death of Socrates
Jacques Louis David · 1787
Letter to L.C. Handy from William M. Riley
William M. Riley · January 21, 1896
Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary)
Paul Gauguin · 1891
Letter to L.C. Handy from William M. Riley
William M. Riley · December 16, 1895
Joan of Arc
Jules Bastien-Lepage · 1879
Letter to L.C. Handy from Eliza Hardy
Eliza Hardy · January 21, 1896
The Adoration of the Shepherds
Andrea Mantegna · shortly after 1450
Telegram to L.C. Handy from William M. Riley
William M. Riley · January 16, 1896
Doorway from Moutiers-Saint-Jean
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1250
Letter to L.C. Handy from Wilson MacDonald
Wilson MacDonald · April 8, 1895
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836)
Jacques Louis David · 1788
Letter to Ulysses S. Grant, III from John C. Fitzpatrick
John C. Fitzpatrick · June 13, 1930
The Letter Writer
Thomas Rowlandson · June 1, 1815
Letter to "L.C. Handy, Esq." from William H. Slocum
William H. Slocum · September 20, 1895
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints
Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1504
Letter addressed to "Dear Nephew" (L.C. Handy) from Mathew Brady
Mathew B. Brady, 1823? - 15 Jan 1896 · June 14, 1895
Handy Letter Writer, from the Honest Library series (N115) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco
W. Duke, Sons & Co. · 1896
Letter to L.C. Handy from William M. Riley
William M. Riley · November 23, 1895
The Last Jig or Adieu to Old England
Thomas Rowlandson · January 10, 1818
Letter addressed to "Dear Nephew" (L.C. Handy) from Mathew Brady
Mathew B. Brady, 1823? - 15 Jan 1896 · April 30, 1895
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. 70 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. 1115824 matched · 40 examined · 9 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 2026-09-01 11:18 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.