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. 15 shown for “Letter written by Union occupation soldier John Stagenwalt” — 44 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 01:51 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Head of Christ (Ecce Homo)
Petrus Christus · ca. 1445
Letter written by Union occupation soldier John Stagenwalt
Artist not stated in the record · September 20, 1866
Self-Portrait
Salvator Rosa · ca. 1647
Letter written by Union occupation soldier John Stagenwalt
Artist not stated in the record · July 30, 1866
The Dead Christ with Angels
Edouard Manet · 1864
Letter written by Union occupation soldier John Stagenwalt
Artist not stated in the record · August 16, 1868
Letter written by Union occupation soldier John Stagenwalt
Artist not stated in the record · March 19, 1869
Letter written by Union soldier John Stagenwalt recounting New Orleans Massacre
Artist not stated in the record · August 21, 1866
Wove paper envelope addressed to John Sheaffer of Bareville, PA
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1866-1869
Taking the Oath and Drawing Rations
John Rogers, born Salem, MA 1829-died New Canaan, CT 1904 · modeled 1865, patented 1866
Wounded to the Rear, One More Shot
John Rogers, born Salem, MA 1829-died New Canaan, CT 1904 · patented 1865
Letter to Rachel Walters from Clara Barton's Office
Artist not stated in the record · March 2, 1867
Viktoria-Luise 1912 Gotha-Chemnitz-Gotha Flight
Artist not stated in the record · 1912
Occupation of Ye Wicked City of Baltimore
Adalbert John Volck, 14 Apr 1828 - 26 Mar 1912 · c. 1862
Title page: "Bearing the Cross"
S. A. Grant · ca. 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. 4 matched · 4 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.3 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 783709 matched · 40 examined · 11 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 01:51 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.