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 woman mailing a letter” — 64 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 01:18 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 Letter
Camille Corot · ca. 1865
Photograph of woman mailing a letter
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1960
Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement
Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440
Photograph of woman mailing a letter
Van Dorn Iron Works · 1920s
A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?)
Edgar Degas · 1865
Photograph of letter carrier delivering mail
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1905
Woman Having Her Hair Combed
Edgar Degas · ca. 1886–88
Photograph of letter carrier delivering mail
Artist not stated in the record · 1908
Marble grave stele of a young woman and servant
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 400–390 BCE
Photograph of letter carriers with handcarts
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1900
Letter
Shiba Sonome 斯波園女 · 1696
Photograph of letter carrier collecting mail
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1915
Woman Stretching
Edgar Degas · modeled probably ca. 1884–89, cast 1920
Photograph of letter carrier collecting mail
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1947
Amulet Carved in Intaglio (Incised)
Artist not stated in the record · 6th–7th century
Advertisement for New Haven Railroad
Artist not stated in the record · 1943
Marble stele (grave marker) of a woman
Artist not stated in the record · mid-4th century BCE
Photograph of parcel post truck and carrier
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1950
Woman Getting out of the Bath
Edgar Degas · modeled probably ca. 1890 or later, cast 1920
Photograph of girl mailing a letter
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1920
Woman with a Parrot
Gustave Courbet · 1866
Photograph of letter carrier collecting mail
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1906
Portrait of a Man, Possibly a Self-Portrait
Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) · ca. 1635
Dead Letter Office Blind Reading album
Artist not stated in the record · 1883-1884
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. 2180 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. 3887642 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 01:18 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.