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 in uniform” — 64 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 03:52 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 Forest in Winter at Sunset
Théodore Rousseau · ca. 1846–67
Photograph of rural carrier in uniform
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1925
Young Ladies of the Village
Gustave Courbet · 1851–52
Photograph of rural carrier and patrons
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1913
Joan of Arc
Jules Bastien-Lepage · 1879
Photograph of letter carrier with horse and wagon
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1900
Young Man Holding a Book
Master of the View of Saint Gudula · ca. 1480
Photograph of rural carrier and sleigh
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1915
Virgin and Child with Saints Catherine of Alexandria and Barbara
Hans Memling · early 1480s
Photograph of female rural carrier in snow
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1910
Picquigny
Frits Thaulow · 1899
Photograph of rural carrier and wagon in snow
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1905
General Étienne-Maurice Gérard (1773–1852)
Jacques Louis David · 1816
Photograph of rural carrier with horse and wagon
Artist not stated in the record · 1912
Atalanta and Meleager
Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1616
Photograph of rural carrier in automobile at mailbox
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1905
Uniform gaiters
Artist not stated in the record · 1790–1820
Photograph of rural carrier with horse and wagon
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1905
Saints Peter and John Healing the Lame Man
Nicolas Poussin · 1655
Photograph of postcard of rural carrier's Christmas
Artist not stated in the record · 1915
Boating
Edouard Manet · 1874
Photograph of Rural Free Delivery wagon with horse in Osseo, Minnesota
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1905
A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?)
Edgar Degas · 1865
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. 225 matched · 24 examined · 8 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. 7483674 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 03:52 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.