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 “Stereograph of a deceased soldier on the battlefield after Gettysburg” — 24 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 15:16 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.
Samson Captured by the Philistines
Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) · 1619
![Confederate Soldier [on the Battlefield at Antietam], by Alexander Gardner](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDP274801.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Confederate Soldier [on the Battlefield at Antietam]
Alexander Gardner · September 1862
Rebel Prisoners, Gettysburg
Brady & Co. · July 1863
Portrait of a Man, Possibly a Self-Portrait
Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) · ca. 1635
Field Where General Reynolds Fell, Gettysburg
Timothy H. O'Sullivan · 1863
Terracotta sarcophagus rim
Artist not stated in the record · last quarter of the 6th century BCE
Andromache and Astyanax
Pierre Paul Prud'hon · ?1813–17; 1823–24?
Frank, Frederick & Alice. "The Children of the Battle Field"
Wenderoth, Taylor & Brown · 1863
A Harvest of Death, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Timothy H. O'Sullivan · July 1863
The Tale of Sumiyoshi
Artist not stated in the record · late 13th century
The Battle of Diomedes and Aeneas (from the Story of Achilles)
Jan van Orley · ca. 1720–30
Rebel Artillery Soldiers, Killed in the Trenches of Fort Mahone, Called by the Soldiers "Fort Damnation," at the Storming of Petersburgh, Virginia
Thomas C. Roche · April 2, 1865
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. 38 matched · 24 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 2026-09-03 15:16 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.