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 post card with letter carriers” — 64 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 01:51 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 Card Players
Paul Cézanne · 1890–92
Photograph of post card with letter carriers
Artist not stated in the record · 1890-1910
Boy with a Sword
Edouard Manet · 1861
Photograph of letter carriers in Concord, New Hampshire
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1890
Young Lady in 1866
Edouard Manet · 1866
Photograph of letter carrier with mail sack
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1965
The Jabach Family
Charles Le Brun · ca. 1660
Photograph of letter carrier with child in mailbag
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1900
Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century
Photograph of letter carrier in mail van
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1954
Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary)
Paul Gauguin · 1891
Photograph of parcel post truck and carrier
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1950
Still Life with Apples and a Pot of Primroses
Paul Cézanne · ca. 1890
Letter carrier uniform jacket
Thorton Tailor · c. 1956-1965
The Adoration of the Shepherds
Andrea Mantegna · shortly after 1450
Photograph of letter carrier collecting mail
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1906
Aristotle with a Bust of Homer
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1653
City letter carrier cap badge, number 15
N. C. Walter and Sons · 1968
Virgin and Child in a Niche
Jan van Eyck · ca. 1440–50
City letter carrier cap badge, number 6
N. C. Walter and Sons · 1968
The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment
Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38
Photograph of letter carriers leaving main post office in New York City
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1940
Wheat Field with Cypresses
Vincent van Gogh · 1889
Photograph of postal clerks sorting mail
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1890
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. 198 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 2952992 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 01:51 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.