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 “Pigeon post microform on paper” — 40 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-29 17:49 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Pigeon post microform on paper
Artist not stated in the record · 1870
Pigeon post microfilm
Artist not stated in the record · 1870
Pigeon post microfilm
Artist not stated in the record · 1870
Photograph of airmail pilot Arthur Roy Smith
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1924
Santa Fe Railway mail car model
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1960s-1974
Rural Free Delivery wagon model
Terre Haute Carriage & Buggy Company · c. 1896- c. 1905
Les Deux Pigeons
Jean-Baptiste Réveillon, French, 1725–1811 · 1789
Savoy Pigeons
James McNeill Whistler, born Lowell, MA 1834-died London, England 1903 · 1896
Monstera adansonii Schott
Artist not stated in the record · 20 Aug 1959
Sidewall
Artist not stated in the record · 1775–85
Red-Eyed Pigeon, Plate 22 from Birds of Western Africa
Artist not stated in the record · 1837
Pigeon
Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎 (1760-1849) · 1760-1849
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. 1011342 matched · 40 examined · 24 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 2026-08-29 17:49 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.