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 “Sarony, Major & Knapp, active 1856 - 1867” — 40 records examined, 14 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 05:52 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Thomas Bethune
Sarony, Major & Knapp, active 1856 - 1867 · 1860
Louis Moreau Gottschalk
Sarony, Major & Knapp, active 1856 - 1867 · c. 1860
The Court of Death
Sarony, Major and Knapp, active 1856-1867 · n.d.
Emery Chamberlain's Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church Certificate by Major & Knapp Engraving, Manufacturing & Lithographic Company
Major & Knapp Engraving, Manufacturing & Lithographic Company · ca 1867
View of Ordinary Lateral Ravines on Grand River From Camp Septbr 3
Tucker, Beverley · 1855
Peaks of the Sierra Blanca, from Near Fort Massachusetts
Artist not stated in the record · 1855
An Oasis in a Buddhist Desert by Ellen Huntly Bullard Mason and Sarony & Major
Colby, Lewis · 1850
Burns and Highland Mary
Sarony & Major · 1846
The Lovers
Sarony, Napoleon · ca 1850
Married
Sarony, Napoleon · ca 1850
Which of Us Will You Marry?
Sarony & Major · 1846
Byron's First Love
Sarony & Major · 1846
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. 14377 matched · 40 examined · 14 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 2026-09-03 05:52 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.