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. 24 shown for “Telegram to Benjamin Lipsner, September 4, 1918” — 64 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-31 23:09 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Young Herdsmen with Cows
Aelbert Cuyp · ca. 1655–60
Telegram to Benjamin Lipsner, September 4, 1918
Artist not stated in the record · September 4, 1918
Young Man and Woman in an Inn
Frans Hals · 1623
Telegram to Benjamin Lipsner, September 4, 1918
Artist not stated in the record · September 4, 1918
A Maid Asleep
Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1656–57
Telegram to Benjamin Lipsner, September 4, 1918
Artist not stated in the record · September 4, 1918
Merrymakers at Shrovetide
Frans Hals · ca. 1616–17
Telegram to Benjamin Lipsner, September 4, 1918
Artist not stated in the record · September 4, 1918
Joan of Arc
Jules Bastien-Lepage · 1879
Telegram
Artist not stated in the record · 1918
Christ Taking Leave of His Mother
Gerard David · ca. 1500
Telegram
Artist not stated in the record · 1918
Old Woman in an Armchair
Jacob Backer
Telegram to Benjamin Lipsner, September 9, 1918
Artist not stated in the record · September 9, 1918
Young Woman Peeling Apples
Nicolaes Maes · ca. 1655
Telegram
Artist not stated in the record · 1918
The Toilet of Bathsheba
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1643
Telegram
Artist not stated in the record · 1918
The Crucifixion
Fra Angelico (Guido di Pietro) · possibly ca. 1440
Telegram
Artist not stated in the record · 1918
Interior with a Young Couple
Pieter de Hooch · probably ca. 1662–65
Telegram to Otto Praeger, September 4, 1918
Artist not stated in the record · September 4, 1918
Woman with a Pink
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · early 1660s
Telegram to Praeger on September 5, 1918
Artist not stated in the record · September 5, 1918
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. 39 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 1513685 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-08-31 23:09 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.