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 “Postcard of Amelia Earhart's monoplane "Friendship"” — 40 records examined, 4 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.
Postcard of Amelia Earhart's monoplane "Friendship"
Artist not stated in the record · 1928
Photograph of monoplane 'Friendship' taking off from Boston Harbor
Artist not stated in the record · 1928
Photograph of Amelia Earhart looking out from back door of 'Friendship'
Artist not stated in the record · 1928
Token commemorating Amelia Earhart's first transatlantic flight
Artist not stated in the record · 1928
Token commemorating Amelia Earhart's first transatlantic flight
Artist not stated in the record · 1928
Photograph of pilot Wilmer Stultz aboard monoplane 'Friendship'
Artist not stated in the record · 1928
Photograph of crowd greeting Amelia Earhart in Southampton, England
Artist not stated in the record · 1928
Photograph of 'Friendship' arriving at Burry Estuary in South Wales
Artist not stated in the record · 1928
Photograph of 'Friendship' leaving Burrey Port for Southampton, England
Artist not stated in the record · 1928
Photograph of 'Friendship' in Trepassey Bay, Newfoundland
Artist not stated in the record · 1928
Lockheed Vega 5B, Amelia Earhart
Lockheed Aircraft Company · 1927-1929
'Tributes are Paid to Amelia Earhart' news clipping
Artist not stated in the record · November 22, 1937
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. 2861293 matched · 40 examined · 4 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.