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. 14 shown for “Sarony & Major Lithography Company, active 1846 - 1857” — 42 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 05:14 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.![Extraordinary Express Across the Atlantic – Pilot Boat Wm. J. Romer, [commanded by] Captain McGuire, Leaving for England, February 9th, 1846, by Nathaniel Currier](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fdp%2Fweb-large%2FDP853636.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Extraordinary Express Across the Atlantic – Pilot Boat Wm. J. Romer, [commanded by] Captain McGuire, Leaving for England, February 9th, 1846
Nathaniel Currier · 1846
Zachary Taylor
Sarony & Major Lithography Company, active 1846 - 1857 · 1848
The American National Game of Base Ball: Grand Match for the Championship at the Elysian Fields, Hoboken, N. J.
Currier & Ives · 1866
The Death of the Gallant Major Ringgold
Sarony & Major Lithography Company, active 1846 - 1857 · 1846
Zachary Taylor
Sarony & Major Lithography Company, active 1846 - 1857 · n.d.a.
George Washington
Sarony & Major Lithography Company, active 1846 - 1857 · 1846
John Quincy Adams
Artist not stated in the record · 1848
James K. Polk
Sarony & Major Lithography Company, active 1846 - 1857 · 1846
An Oasis in a Buddhist Desert by Ellen Huntly Bullard Mason and Sarony & Major
Colby, Lewis · 1850
Burns and Highland Mary
Sarony & Major · 1846
Which of Us Will You Marry?
Sarony & Major · 1846
Byron's First Love
Sarony & Major · 1846
Popping the Question
Sarony & Major · 1846
Charles
Sarony & Major · ca 1848
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. 2 matched · 2 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.2 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 12385 matched · 40 examined · 7 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 2026-09-02 05:14 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.