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. 21 shown for “Photograph of rural carrier greeted by children” — 57 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 03:55 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Scenes from the Story of the Argonauts
Biagio d'Antonio
Photograph of rural carrier greeted by children
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1935
Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary)
Paul Gauguin · 1891
Photograph of rural carrier in uniform
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1925
The Monet Family in Their Garden at Argenteuil
Edouard Manet · 1874
Photograph of rural carrier and sleigh
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1915
Boy with a Sword
Edouard Manet · 1861
Photograph of female rural carrier in snow
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1910
Jalais Hill, Pontoise
Camille Pissarro · 1867
Photograph of rural carrier and wagon in snow
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1905
Midas Washing at the Source of the Pactolus
Nicolas Poussin · ca. 1627
Photograph of rural carrier and patrons
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1913
![[African American Family at Gee's Bend, Alabama], by Arthur Rothstein](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDP212791.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[African American Family at Gee's Bend, Alabama]
Arthur Rothstein · 1937
Photograph of letter carrier with horse and wagon
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1900
Scenes from the Story of the Argonauts
Jacopo di Arcangelo (called Jacopo del Sellaio) · ca. 1465
Photograph of rural carrier with horse and wagon
Artist not stated in the record · 1912
![[Hutchinson Family Singers], by Unknown](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDT5679.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[Hutchinson Family Singers]
Unknown · 1845
Photograph of rural carrier with horse and wagon
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1905
Photograph of rural carrier in automobile at mailbox
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1905
Rural Free Delivery Mail sled
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1900-1920s
Photograph of rural carrier with horse and wagon
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1905
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. 17 matched · 17 examined · 8 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.9 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 3062074 matched · 40 examined · 8 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 03:55 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.