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. 23 shown for “No. 86, Picking Cotton” — 64 records examined, 33 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-30 13:19 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Costume Armor and Sword in the Classical Style
Hallé · ca. 1788–90
No. 86, Picking Cotton
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1895
No. 19, Cotton Picking
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th-early 20th century
Women Picking Olives
Vincent van Gogh · 1889
Albumen print of men, women, and children picking cotton in South Carolina
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1875
Tabard
Chimú artist(s) · 1400–1600 CE
Stereograph of people picking cotton in a field
Artist not stated in the record · 1876-1896
King's Moorish attendant
Artist not stated in the record · second half 18th century
Picking Cotton
Artist not stated in the record · 1870-1880
Mandala of the Sun God Surya
Kitaharasa · likely 1379
Cotton is King, Plantation Scene, Georgia, U. S. A.
Artist not stated in the record · 1895
Traveling tea set
Christopher Dresser · ca. 1879
Florida, The Land of Flowers and Tropical Scenery.
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1900
Carpet with Triple-Arch Design
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1575–90
9506 Picking Cotton on a Mississippi Plantation.
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1900
Abaya Cloak
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th–early 20th century
6946. Morning start in Cotton Field.
Artist not stated in the record · 1892
A Man Seen from the Back Leaning on a Croquet Mallet
Abraham Bosse · 1629
"Culture et Arsonnage du Coton" from Diderot's Encyclopedia, Vol. I
Robert Bénard, French, 1734–1772 · 1762
Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary)
Paul Gauguin · 1891
Cotton is King - Plantation Scene, Georgia
Artist not stated in the record · 1895
False Face for Funerary Bundle
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd century BCE–1st century CE
651. Cotton is King - A Louisiana Plantation Scene, (Prize Cotton).
Artist not stated in the record · 1900
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. 94 matched · 24 examined · 9 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. 242811 matched · 40 examined · 24 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 2026-08-30 13:19 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.