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 near mailbox” — 56 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 01:33 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Young Ladies of the Village
Gustave Courbet · 1851–52
Photograph of rural carrier near mailbox
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1905
Picquigny
Frits Thaulow · 1899
Photograph of rural carrier and wagon
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1900
Joan of Arc
Jules Bastien-Lepage · 1879
Photograph of rural carrier in uniform
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1925
A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?)
Edgar Degas · 1865
Photograph of postcard of rural carrier's Christmas
Artist not stated in the record · 1915
The Forest in Winter at Sunset
Théodore Rousseau · ca. 1846–67
Photograph of rural carrier greeted by children
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1935
Jalais Hill, Pontoise
Camille Pissarro · 1867
Photograph of rural carrier in automobile at mailbox
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1905
The Head of the Virgin in Three-Quarter View Facing Right
Leonardo da Vinci · 1510–13
Photograph of rural carrier in automobile at mailboxes
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1910
Carrière aux Sables de Macherin
Eugène Cuvelier · 1863
Photograph of letter carrier retrieving mail from mailbox
Artist not stated in the record · 1992
The Monet Family in Their Garden at Argenteuil
Edouard Manet · 1874
Photograph of letter carrier in snow
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1920
Scène près d'un étang au moulin du Petit-Mourmelon
Gustave Le Gray · 1857
Photograph of letter carrier delivering mail
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1905
The Musicians
Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi) · 1597
Photograph of letter carrier collecting mail
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1890
Hexagonal Tile Ensemble with Sphinx
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1160s–70s
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. 16 matched · 16 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. 3151847 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 01:33 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.