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 “Photograph of boy mailing a letter” — 64 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 01:08 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Statue of two men and a boy that served as a domestic icon
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1347–1330 BCE
Photograph of boy mailing a letter
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1880
The Letter
Camille Corot · ca. 1865
Photograph of letter carrier with child in mailbag
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1900
Letter
Song Jue · early 17th century
Advertisement for New Haven Railroad
Artist not stated in the record · 1943
Boy with a Sword
Edouard Manet · 1861
Photograph of letter carriers with handcarts
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1900
Spinario (boy pulling a thorn from his foot)
Antico (Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi) · probably modeled: 1496, cast: ca. 1501
Advertisement for Dole Hawaiian Pineapple Products
Artist not stated in the record · 1945
Portrait of a Man, Possibly a Self-Portrait
Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) · ca. 1635
Photograph of letter carrier collecting mail
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1915
Armor of Mail and Plate
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th–first half of the 19th century
Photograph of letter carrier collecting mail
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1947
Sleeping Boy
Philippe Laurent Roland · ca. 1774
Photograph of letter carrier delivering mail
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1905
Young Lady in 1866
Edouard Manet · 1866
Photograph of parcel post truck and carrier
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1950
Boy with a Greyhound
Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari) · possibly 1570s
Photograph of girl mailing a letter
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1920
Boy with a Lute
Frans Hals · ca. 1625
Photograph of letter carrier collecting mail
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1906
Two Children Teasing a Cat
Annibale Carracci
Photograph of letter carrier retrieving mail from mailbox
Artist not stated in the record · 1992
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. 1278 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 3889053 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 01:08 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.