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. 20 shown for “Photograph of Principal H. H. Falkener and four Percy Street School teachers” — 48 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 09:44 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Oedipus and the Sphinx
Gustave Moreau · 1864
Photograph of Principal H. H. Falkener and four Percy Street School teachers
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1925
Aristotle with a Bust of Homer
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1653
Photographic postcard of Senator Henry Hall Falkener
Artist not stated in the record · early 20th century
The Love Song
Sir Edward Burne-Jones · 1868–77
Photograph of schoolchildren and teachers
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1913
The Harvesters
Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565
Photograph of school children with their teacher
Artist not stated in the record · 1880s-1890s
Juan de Pareja (ca. 1608–1670)
Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) · 1650
Photograph of a Guilford County school bus and school children
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1916
Majas on a Balcony
Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · ca. 1800–1810
The Institutes of English Grammar
Artist not stated in the record · 1867
Whalers
Joseph Mallord William Turner · ca. 1845
Photograph of Senator Henry Hall Falkener and family
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1906
The Horse Fair
Rosa Bonheur · 1852–55
Photograph of Waldo C. Falkener, Sr. and horse
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1920
Photograph of Senator Henry Hall Falkener and family
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1906
Photograph of George Harold Falkener
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1925
Photograph of two groups of servicemen in front of a of large, brick building
Artist not stated in the record · 1902-1926
Program from The Frederick Douglass Memorial Hospital and Training School
Artist not stated in the record · April 1909
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. 8 matched · 8 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.8 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 3657943 matched · 40 examined · 27 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 2026-09-03 09:44 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.