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. 22 shown for “Unidentified Man” — 64 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 04:01 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Kshitigarbha
Unidentified artist · first half of the 14th century
Unidentified Men
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70
Portrait of a Young Man
Hans Memling · ca. 1472–75
Patent Office
Unidentified Artist · c. 1907
Portrait of a Man with Gloves
Corneille de Lyon · ca. 1535
Patent Office
Unidentified Artist · c. 1907
Portrait of a Man with a Hebrew Tablet
Antonio Campi · ca. 1575
Camp Scene/New York 7th Regiment
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70
Portrait of a Young Man
Bronzino (Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano) · 1530s
Unidentified Man
Unidentified Artist · c. 1870
Snuffbox with portrait of an unidentified man
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770
Unidentified Man
William Miller, 1850 - 1923 · c. 1880-90
Portrait of a Man
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1632
Unidentified Men
Mathew Brady Studio, active 1844 - 1894 · 1864
Merrymaking in a Brothel
Unidentified · early 17th century
Camp Scene/New York 7th Regiment
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70
Dancer with a Sword
Unidentified · ca. 1670
Civil War Camp Scenes / Possibly 7th New York Regiment
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70
Unidentified profile portrait, man facing left
Anonymous, German · 1773–1820
Camp Scene/New York 7th Regiment
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70
Civil War Camp Scenes
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70
Unidentified Man
George Linen, 29 Apr 1802 - 27 Sep 1888 · c. 1835-44
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. 379 matched · 24 examined · 14 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.10 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 72647 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 2026-08-27 04:01 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.