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 “Sullivan, T.” — 64 records examined, 43 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 08:08 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Black Cañon, From Camp 8, Looking Above
Timothy H. O'Sullivan · 1871
Gardner's Photographic Sketchbook of the War, Volume 2
Alexander Gardner · 1863
Sebastián Martínez y Pérez (1747–1800)
Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · 1792
Cardinal Fernando Niño de Guevara (1541–1609)
El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1600
The Vision of Saint John
El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1608–14
A Harvest of Death, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Timothy H. O'Sullivan · July 1863
Music Mountain From Truxton Springs, Arizona Territory
Timothy H. O'Sullivan · 1871
Lower Mesa, Near Young Springs, Arizona Territory
Timothy H. O'Sullivan · 1871
Snow Peaks, Bull Run Mining District, Nevada
Timothy H. O'Sullivan · 1871
Black Cañon, Looking Above From Mirror Bar
Timothy H. O'Sullivan · 1871
Black Cañon, Looking Below Near Camp 8
Timothy H. O'Sullivan · 1871
Entrance to Black Cañon, From Above
Timothy H. O'Sullivan · 1871
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. 90 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 397149 matched · 40 examined · 40 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.0 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 08:08 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.