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 “Officer of the Guard order issued to John H. Alexander” — 64 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-08 12:31 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 Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry
The Limbourg Brothers · 1405–1408/1409
Officer of the Guard order issued to John H. Alexander
Artist not stated in the record · October 10, 1887
The Annunciation
Hans Memling · 1480–89
30c Alexander Hamilton special printing single
Continental Bank Note Company · 1875
The Harvesters
Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565
Official Register of the Officers and Cadets of the U.S. Military Academy
United States Military Academy, American, founded 1802 · June 1887
At the Milliner's
Edgar Degas · 1882
Pennsylvania Packet and the General Advertiser newspaper
Artist not stated in the record · 1772
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints
Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1504
Letter
Artist not stated in the record · June 26, 1847
The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment
Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38
US Cavalry officer's uniform riding pants worn by John H. Alexander
John G. Haas, American · ca. 1890
Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece)
Robert Campin · ca. 1427–32
5c Thomas Jefferson re-issue single
National Bank Note Company · 1875
Allegory of the Catholic Faith
Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1670–72
Certificate of Appreciation from US Coast Guard to Maxine Sullivan
Artist not stated in the record · 20th century
Doge Alvise Mocenigo (1507–1577) Presented to the Redeemer
Jacopo Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti) · probably 1577
Letter-copy book for the Chicago post office
Artist not stated in the record · 1861-1864
Federico Gonzaga (1500–1540)
Francesco Francia · 1510
WWI Special passport for postal employee
Artist not stated in the record · 1917
The Abduction of Rebecca
Eugène Delacroix · 1846
Ledger of supply costs for eleven Revolutionary War soldiers
Isaac Goodrich, American · 1782
The Immaculate Conception
Guido Reni · 1627
Medal of Honor Citation issued for First Lieutenant John E. Warren, Jr.
Artist not stated in the record · August 6 1970
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. 251 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 3957728 matched · 40 examined · 23 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 2026-09-08 12:31 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.