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. 17 shown for “Pilot Edward Gardner’s flight suit” — 45 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 15:58 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
A Hunting Scene
Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio) · ca. 1494–1500
Pilot Edward Gardner’s flight suit
Artist not stated in the record · 1918-1919
The Annunciation
Gerard David · 1506
Pilot Edward Gardner's aviation face mask
Artist not stated in the record · 1918-1919
The Return from the Hunt
Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio) · ca. 1494–1500
Pilot Eddie Gardner's aviation leggings
Artist not stated in the record · 1918-1919
The Nativity with Donors and Saints Jerome and Leonard
Gerard David · ca. 1510–15
Telegram from Praeger on September 5, 1918
Artist not stated in the record · September 5, 1918
The Storm
Pierre-Auguste Cot · 1880
Telegram to Benjamin Lipsner, September 4, 1918
Artist not stated in the record · September 4, 1918
Pilot Edward Gardner’s aviation helmet
Artist not stated in the record · 1918-1919
Telegram to Praeger on September 5, 1918
Artist not stated in the record · September 5, 1918
List of the first airmail mechanics and pilots
Artist not stated in the record · 1918
Telegram to Praeger on September 6, 1918
Artist not stated in the record · September 6, 1918
Telegram to Benjamin Lipsner, September 4, 1918
Artist not stated in the record · September 4, 1918
Telegram to Benjamin Lipsner
Artist not stated in the record · September 4, 1918
Telegram
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. 5 matched · 5 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.5 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 175796 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 2026-09-01 15:58 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.