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. 22 shown for “Official stampless cover with photostat on album page” — 51 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 01:11 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Album of Tournaments and Parades in Nuremberg
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–mid-17th century
Official stampless cover with photostat on album page
Artist not stated in the record · June 23, 1948
Oedipus and the Sphinx
Gustave Moreau · 1864
Postage Paid stampless cover and photostats on album page
Artist not stated in the record · October 14, 1939
![[Scenes of the Plague in Bombay, 1896–97, and the Indian Famine, 1899–1900], by Shivshanker Narayen](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDP-19422-001.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[Scenes of the Plague in Bombay, 1896–97, and the Indian Famine, 1899–1900]
Shivshanker Narayen · 1896–1900
Official stampless special delivery cover on album page
Artist not stated in the record · April 7, 1949
"Four Portraits: (upper left) A Raja (Perhaps Raja Sarang Rao), by Balchand; (upper right) 'Inayat Khan, by Daulat; (lower left) 'Abd al-Khaliq, probably by Balchand; (lower right) Jamal Khan Qaravul, by Murad", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album
Balachand · recto: ca. 1610–15; verso: dated 1541
bulk mail postal markings and cover on album page
Artist not stated in the record · 1948
Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895)
Auguste Renoir · 1878
Gaza to Cario stampless cover with cancels on album page
Artist not stated in the record · 6/6/1919
The Adoration of the Shepherds
Andrea Mantegna · shortly after 1450
Soldiers' mail specimen marking photostat and postcard on album page
Artist not stated in the record · October 3, 1948
One hundred portraits of Peking opera characters
Unidentified artist · late 19th–early 20th century
Postage Paid stampless cover on album page
Artist not stated in the record · October 1, 1947
A New Record Comparing the Handwriting of the Courtesans of the Yoshiwara (Yoshiwara keisei shin bijin jihitsu kagami) 吉原傾城新美人自筆鏡
Kitao Masanobu (Santō Kyōden) 北尾政演 (山東京伝) · 1784, early spring (Tenmei 4)
Postage Paid stampless cover on album page
Artist not stated in the record · June 20, 1946
Photographic Facsimiles of the Remains of the Epistles of Clement of Rome. Made from the Unique Copy Preserved in the Codex Alexandrinus.
Roger Fenton · 1856
Ahuzat Samuel, Haifa postmarks on cover on album page
Artist not stated in the record · June 11, 1947
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints and Angels
Francesco Botticini (Francesco di Giovanni) · 1493–95
Postage Paid covers and cut corners on album page
Artist not stated in the record · December 31, 1946
Ahuza Samuel, Haifa and various postmarks on cover on album page
Artist not stated in the record · December 12, 1947
Ahuzat Samuel, Haifa and various postal markings on cover on album page
Artist not stated in the record · December 2, 1935
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. 11 matched · 11 examined · 1 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. 1090110 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 01:11 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.