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 soldiers writing letters home” — 64 records examined, 9 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-10 05:53 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Portrait of a Man, Possibly a Self-Portrait
Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) · ca. 1635
Photograph of soldiers writing letters home
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1918
The Love Letter
Jean Honoré Fragonard · early 1770s
Mexican-American War folded letter
Artist not stated in the record · November 13, 1846
Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece)
Robert Campin · ca. 1427–32
Advertisement from Brewing Industry Foundation
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1944
Joan of Arc
Jules Bastien-Lepage · 1879
Advertisement for New Haven Railroad
Artist not stated in the record · 1943
Young Lady in 1866
Edouard Manet · 1866
Letter to Rachel Walters from Isaac Walters
Artist not stated in the record · November 4, 1864
Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary)
Paul Gauguin · 1891
German postcard from World War I
Artist not stated in the record · March 6, 1919
The Glorification of the Barbaro Family
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · ca. 1750
Letter to Mary Seward from John Seward
Artist not stated in the record · March 29, 1776
Allegory of the Catholic Faith
Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1670–72
Letter written by Union occupation soldier John Stagenwalt
Artist not stated in the record · September 20, 1866
Papyrus of Sitnebsekhtu, Heqanakht Letter IV
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1961–1917 B.C.
Letter to Rachel Walters from Clara Barton's Office
Artist not stated in the record · March 2, 1867
Lake Nemi and Genzano from the Terrace of the Capuchin Monastery
Richard Wilson · ca. 1756–57
Abraham Lincoln
Alexander Gardner, 17 Oct 1821 - 10 Dec 1882 · February 24, 1861
Boy with a Sword
Edouard Manet · 1861
Letter to Rachel Walters from David Walters
Artist not stated in the record · September 29, 1862
Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895)
Auguste Renoir · 1878
Photographic postcard of Cpl. Lawrence Leslie McVey in uniform
Artist not stated in the record · 1918
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. 370 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 2899621 matched · 40 examined · 6 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 2026-09-10 05:53 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.