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 letter carrier in snow” — 64 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 01:18 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
The Letter
Camille Corot · ca. 1865
Photograph of letter carrier in snow
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1920
Letter
Wang Zhideng
Photograph of female rural carrier in snow
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1910
Girl in a Straw Bonnet
Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse · ca. 1868–70
Photograph of parcel post truck and carrier
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1950
Young Lady in 1866
Edouard Manet · 1866
Photograph of letter carrier in Mailster vehicle
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1955
Portrait of a Man, Possibly a Self-Portrait
Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) · ca. 1635
Photograph of rural carrier with horse and wagon
Artist not stated in the record · 1912
The Forest in Winter at Sunset
Théodore Rousseau · ca. 1846–67
Photograph of mail van in the snow
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1953
The Investiture of Bishop Harold as Duke of Franconia
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · ca. 1751–52
Photograph of rural carrier and wagon in snow
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1905
Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece)
Robert Campin · ca. 1427–32
Photograph of letter carrier with horse and wagon
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1900
The Vision of Saint John
El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1608–14
Photograph of letter carriers with handcarts
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1900
Saints Peter, Martha, Mary Magdalen, and Leonard
Correggio (Antonio Allegri) · ca. 1515
Photograph of rural carrier in automobile at mailboxes
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1910
Madonna and Child
Giovanni Bellini · late 1480s
Photograph of letter carrier delivering mail by bicycle
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1890
Don Gaspar de Guzmán (1587–1645), Count-Duke of Olivares
Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo · ca. 1636 or later
Photograph of letter carrier with mail wagon
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1895
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. 1132 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 7483687 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 01:18 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.