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. 16 shown for “Log Cabin” — 64 records examined, 46 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-29 00:30 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Quilt, Log Cabin pattern, Light and Dark variation
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1865
Plate, log cabin
Artist not stated in the record
Quilt, Log Cabin pattern, Straight Furrow variation
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1875
Camp A: Log Cabin in Woods (from Sketchbook X)
William Trost Richards · 1885
Log Cabin, Adirondack Mountains, New York
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1856
Log Cabin
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · probably 1856
![[Winter Quarters of Unidentified Union Army Regiment with Two Rows of Log Cabins], by Unknown](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDP70780.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[Winter Quarters of Unidentified Union Army Regiment with Two Rows of Log Cabins]
Unknown · 1861–65
Log Cabin
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century
Columbian Star/ 444/ Oct.. 28th 1840/ In Ridgway
John Ridgway · ca. 1839–ca. 1840
Log Cabin Parade Prop, 1840
Artist not stated in the record · c1840
Copying Maps, Photographic Headquarters, Petersburg, Virginia
Unknown · March 1865
Log Cabin, Catskill, New York
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · July and September 1844
Cider Making
William Sidney Mount · 1840–41
Log Cabin Politicians
G. W. Burgess and Company · 1841
Low Water in the Mississippi
Frances Flora Bond Palmer · 1868
Wild Goose Chase Quilt
Susan Reed Ruddick · 1851
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. 24 matched · 24 examined · 14 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.10 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 14819 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-29 00:30 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.