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. 12 shown for “Photograph of Postmaster General Burleson and President and Mrs. Woodrow Wilson” — 41 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 20:16 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Photograph of Postmaster General Burleson and President and Mrs. Woodrow Wilson
Artist not stated in the record · 1918
Photograph of Pres. Wilson at first regularly scheduled airmail service ceremony
Artist not stated in the record · May 15, 1918
Photograph of Postmaster General Albert S. Burleson
Artist not stated in the record · 1918
Woodrow Wilson and His Cabinet
Harris & Ewing Studio, active 1905 - 1977 · March 1, 1921
Wilson and His Cabinet
Harris & Ewing Studio, active 1905 - 1977 · c. 1916
Woodrow Wilson and his Cabinet
Harris & Ewing Studio, active 1905 - 1977 · 1913
Taussig US first airmail flight signed by Woodrow Wilson cover and letter
Artist not stated in the record · May 15, 1918
Woodrow Wilson
John Christen Johansen, 25 Nov 1876 - 23 Jun 1964 · c. 1919
I Summon You to the Comradeship
Leo Mielziner, 1869 - 1935 · 1918
Photograph
Artist not stated in the record · 1918
Telegram to Adjutant General, July 17, 1918
Artist not stated in the record · July 17, 1918
Wilson Family
Pach Brothers Studio, active 1867 - 1993 · c. 1911
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. 1 matched · 1 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.0 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 3199015 matched · 40 examined · 15 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 20:16 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.