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. 17 shown for “Old US Capitol” — 64 records examined, 42 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-07 09:31 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Old Plum
Kano Sansetsu · 1646
Old US Capitol
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830
View of the Capitol
Charles W. Burton · 1824
Eptesicus fuscus bernardinus
Artist not stated in the record · 4 Dec 1928
![[Boy and Girl Holding Hands], by Bennet](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDT5655.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[Boy and Girl Holding Hands]
Bennet · ca. 1850
Christ Is Born as Man's Redeemer (Episode from the Story of the Redemption of Man)
Artist not stated in the record · 1500–1520
3c Iowa Territory Centennial plate proof
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
The Veteran in a New Field
Winslow Homer · 1865
5c 150th Anniversary of Indiana Statehood plate proof
Bureau of Engraving and Printing · December 20, 1965
Relief Fragment with a Ship Under Sail
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2465–2458 BCE
5c 150th Anniversary of Indiana Statehood plate proof
Bureau of Engraving and Printing · January 18, 1966
West wall of the chapel of the mastaba Kaemsenu with niches for Iretnub, Kaemsenu and Werdjedptah
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2420–2250 BCE
King Sahure Accompanied by a Divine Figure
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2458–2446 BCE
Old Soldier
Anders Zorn · 1911
Mrs. Greenhow and Daughter, Imprisoned in the Old Capitol, Washington
Alexander Gardner · 1862
Mrs. Greenhow and Daughter, Imprisoned in the Old Capitol, Washington
Alexander Gardner · 1862
St. Giles-in-the-Fields
James McNeill Whistler · 1896
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. 457 matched · 24 examined · 8 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. 451841 matched · 40 examined · 34 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.6 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-07 09:31 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.