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. 13 shown for “Photograph of postcard with mail team leaving Circle City for Ft. Gibson, Alaska” — 41 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-09 17:56 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 Jabach Family
Charles Le Brun · ca. 1660
Photograph of postcard with mail team leaving Circle City for Ft. Gibson, Alaska
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1900
Photograph of postcard of US mail leaving Seward for Anchorage, Alaska
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1905
Photograph of postcard of prize dog team in the Arctic
Artist not stated in the record · 1911
Photograph of postcard of transporting US mail in Alaska
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1910
![Photograph of Seward and Susitna [Alaska] mail team](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fdownload%3Fid%3DNPM-A.2009-35.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Photograph of Seward and Susitna [Alaska] mail team
Artist not stated in the record · 1913
Alaskan dog sled
Artist not stated in the record · 1922-1938
German postcard from World War I
Artist not stated in the record · March 6, 1919
Photographic postcard of boxer Emma Maitland
Unidentified · late 1920s; printed later
Photographic postcard of Billy Ward and His Dominoes, with autographs
Artist not stated in the record · 1950-1969
Photograph of airmail pilot Harry A. Chandler
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1924
Postcard for Sugar Ray's Cafe
Artist not stated in the record · 1946-1954
Photograph of rural carrier with horse and wagon
Artist not stated in the record · 1912
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 · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.1 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 3150847 matched · 40 examined · 24 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 2026-09-09 17:56 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.