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 Lithography Company, active 1853 - 1857” — 17 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 18:10 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.
The Surrender of General Burgoyne at Saratoga, New York, October 17th, 1777
Otto Knirsch · 1852
Landscape – Fruit and Flowers
Frances Flora Bond Palmer · 1862
![Washington Crossing the Delaware – Evening Previous to the Battle of Trenton, December [2]5th, 1776, by Currier & Ives](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fdp%2Fweb-large%2FDP853576.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Washington Crossing the Delaware – Evening Previous to the Battle of Trenton, December [2]5th, 1776
Currier & Ives · 1857–71
The Champions of the Mississippi – "A Race for the Buckhorns"
Frances Flora Bond Palmer · 1866
Steamboats Passing at Midnight – On Long Island Sound
Currier & Ives · 1868–74
"Rounding a Bend" on the Mississippi – The Parting Salute
Frances Flora Bond Palmer · 1866
The Home of Evangeline – "In the Acadian Land"
Frances Flora Bond Palmer · 1864
Washington Taking Command of the American Army – At Cambridge, Massachusetts, July 3rd, 1775
Currier & Ives · 1876
The Inauguration of Washington as First President of the United States, April 30th 1789 – At the Old City Hall, New York – The oath of office was administered by Chancellor Livingston of the State of New York – Mr. Otis the Secretary of the Senate holding up the Bible on a crimson cushion
Currier & Ives · 1876
The Progress of the Century – The Lightning Steam Press. The Electric Telegraph. The Locomotive. The Steamboat.
Currier & Ives · 1876
Terrific Combat Between the "Monitor" 2 Guns & "Merrimac" 11 Guns – In Hampton Roads March 9th, 1862 – In which the little "Monitor" whipped the "Merrimac" and the whole "School" of Rebel Steamers
Currier & Ives · 1862
Terrific Engagement between the "Monitor" 2 guns, and "Merrimac" 10 guns, in Hampton Roads, March 9th, 1862 – The First Fight Between Ironclad Ships of War
Frances Flora Bond Palmer · 1862
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. 17 matched · 17 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.12 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 18:10 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.