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. 12 shown for “Photographic postcard of Cpl. Lawrence Leslie McVey in uniform” — 40 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-31 23:22 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Photographic postcard of Cpl. Lawrence Leslie McVey in uniform
Artist not stated in the record · 1914 - 1918
Photographic postcard of Cpl. Lawrence Leslie McVey in uniform
Artist not stated in the record · 1918
Photograph of Cpl. Lawrence Leslie McVey with his son, Lawrence McVey Jr.
Artist not stated in the record · 1925
Photograph of Cpl. Lawrence Leslie McVey
Unidentified · 1920s
Photograph of Cpl. Lawrence Leslie McVey on the beach
Artist not stated in the record · 1920-1930
Photograph of Cpl. Lawrence McVey in uniform wearing the Croix de Guerre medal
Alva Studio, American · ca. 1920
Photograph of Cpl. Lawrence Leslie McVey
Unidentified · 1924
Photograph of Cpl. Lawrence Leslie McVey
Unidentified · ca. 1915
Panoramic photographic print of D Company, 369th regiment at Camp Merritt
Unidentified · 1917
French Croix de Guerre medal issued to Cpl. Lawrence Leslie McVey
Albert Bartholomé, French, 1848 - 1928 · 1918
Certificate for French Croix de Guerre medal issued to Cpl. Lawrence L. McVey
French Republic, French, founded 1792 · March 2, 1928
Order of Commendation from the Commander of the French Armies of the East
French Republic, French, founded 1792 · March 19, 1919
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. The archive returned no records for this term.0 matched - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 7483674 matched · 40 examined · 25 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 2026-08-31 23:22 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.