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 “Unidentified Artist (Engraver)” — 40 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 15:13 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.
John Hunt Morgan
Unidentified Artist · c. 1862
Frederick Douglass
Unidentified Artist (Engraver) · April 21, 1877
Battle of Bull Run
Unidentified Artist · published August 10, 1861
Engraving of Slaves in the Hold
John Warner Barber, 2 Feb 1798 - 22 Jun 1885 · 1840
John Wesley Jarvis
Unidentified Artist · c. 1821
The Japanese Embassy and their Attendants
Unidentified Artist · 1860
Die Osagen Indianer
Unidentified Artist · c. 1827
The Reluctant Model
Unidentified Artist · published July 31, 1886
Southworth & Hawes’ Daguerreotype Rooms
Unidentified Artist · c. 1848
The Patent Office
Unidentified Artist · c. 1880
Patent Office in Washington
Unidentified Artist · n.d.a.
The Patent Office
Unidentified Artist · c. 1880
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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 268981 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 2026-09-06 15:13 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.