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. 15 shown for “Transatlantic Cover to Newport, Rhode Island” — 64 records examined, 47 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 00:54 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Peonies Blown in the Wind
John La Farge · ca. 1880
Transatlantic Cover to Newport, Rhode Island
Artist not stated in the record · 1820
Card Table
John Goddard · 1760–85
Stampless Cover
Artist not stated in the record · 1825
Tureen and Stand
Gorham Manufacturing Company · 1900
Transatlantic Cover to New York
Artist not stated in the record · 1847
Sketchbook of Pacific Northwest Landscape Subjects
William Trost Richards · 1885
3c Washington Executive cover
Artist not stated in the record · June 25, 1877
Desk and bookcase
Artist not stated in the record · 1760–90
Sketchbook of New England and Pennsylvania Landscape and Marine Subjects
William Trost Richards · 1886
![Volcanic Peak [Cover?] Between Two Banks of Fog (from Sketchbook X), by William Trost Richards](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fad%2Fweb-large%2F257711.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Volcanic Peak [Cover?] Between Two Banks of Fog (from Sketchbook X)
William Trost Richards · 1885
Tankard
Thomas Byles · 1710
Chest of Drawers
John Goddard · 1755–85
Porringer
Joseph Belcher Sr. · 1769–87
From Paradise to Purgatory, Newport
William Trost Richards · 1878
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. 341 matched · 24 examined · 11 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. 1378610 matched · 40 examined · 36 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.4 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 00:54 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.