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 rural carrier and patrons” — 64 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 05:47 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Sword Hilt
Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse · 1881–82
Photograph of rural carrier and patrons
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1905
The Triumph of Fame; (reverse) Impresa of the Medici Family and Arms of the Medici and Tornabuoni Families
Giovanni di ser Giovanni Guidi (called Scheggia) · ca. 1449
Photograph of rural carrier and patrons
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1913
Saint Matthew
Antonio Susini · 1596
Photograph of postcard of rural carrier's Christmas
Artist not stated in the record · 1915
Saddle
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1420
Photograph of rural carrier greeted by children
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1935
Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895)
Auguste Renoir · 1878
Rural letter carrier's cash and stamp box
Charles Boyer Company · c. 1902-1930
Young Ladies of the Village
Gustave Courbet · 1851–52
Rural Letter Carrier's cash and stamp box
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1902-1930
The Crucifixion with Donors and Saints Peter and Margaret of Antioch
Cornelis Engebrechtsz · ca. 1525–30
Rural letter carrier’s cash and stamp box
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1902-1930
The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John
Hendrick ter Brugghen · ca. 1624–25
Rural Free Delivery Mail sled
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1900-1920s
The Assumption of the Virgin
Bernardo Daddi · 1337–38
Rural letter carrier's handmade sorting bag
Artist not stated in the record · After 1896
The Forest in Winter at Sunset
Théodore Rousseau · ca. 1846–67
Photograph of rural carrier in uniform
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1925
Virgin and Child in a Niche
Jan van Eyck · ca. 1440–50
Rural Free Delivery self-inking pocket handstamp
Artist not stated in the record · June 4, 1902
Joan of Arc
Jules Bastien-Lepage · 1879
Photograph of rural carrier and sleigh
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1915
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. 389 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 3133298 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 05:47 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.