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 Praeger on September 5, 1918” — 64 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-31 23:12 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Venus and Cupid
Lorenzo Lotto · 1520s
Telegram to Praeger on September 5, 1918
Artist not stated in the record · September 5, 1918
The Annunciation
Hans Memling · 1480–89
Telegram to Otto Praeger, September 4, 1918
Artist not stated in the record · September 4, 1918
Woman Having Her Hair Combed
Edgar Degas · ca. 1886–88
Telegram
Artist not stated in the record · 1918
Study for "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte"
Georges Seurat · 1884
Telegram to Benjamin Lipsner, September 4, 1918
Artist not stated in the record · September 4, 1918
Mäda Primavesi (1903–2000)
Gustav Klimt · 1912–13
Telegram to Otto Praeger, September 5, 1918
Artist not stated in the record · September 5, 1918
The Temple of Dendur
Artist not stated in the record · completed by 10 CE
Telegram to Praeger on September 6, 1918
Artist not stated in the record · September 6, 1918
The Visitation
Master Heinrich of Constance · ca. 1310–20
Telegram to Benjamin Lipsner, September 9, 1918
Artist not stated in the record · September 9, 1918
Serena Pulitzer Lederer (1867–1943)
Gustav Klimt · 1899
Telegram to Benjamin Lipsner, September 3, 1918
Artist not stated in the record · September 3, 1918
Entombment of Christ
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1515
Telegram from Praeger on September 5, 1918
Artist not stated in the record · September 5, 1918
Marie Joséphine Charlotte du Val d'Ognes (1786–1868)
Marie Denise Villers · 1801
Telegram to Benjamin Lipsner, September 4, 1918
Artist not stated in the record · September 4, 1918
The Three Ages of Humans
Dosso Dossi (Giovanni de Lutero) · ca. 1515
Telegram to Benjamin Lipsner, September 4, 1918
Artist not stated in the record · September 4, 1918
Self-Portrait with Two Pupils, Marie Gabrielle Capet (1761–1818) and Marie Marguerite Carraux de Rosemond (1765–1788)
Adélaïde Labille-Guiard · 1785
Telegram
Artist not stated in the record · 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. 510 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. 2034391 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 23:12 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.