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 “Unidentified Men at Lookout Mountain, Tenn.” — 64 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 03:22 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Gathering of government officials
Unidentified artist · ca. 1551
Unidentified Men at Lookout Mountain, Tenn.
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70
Conversation in a cave
Unidentified · 13th century
Cabinet card of an unidentified man wearing an overcoat and holding a hat
Artist not stated in the record · 1880-1895
Gathering at the Orchid Pavilion
Unidentified artist · 16th century
Hieracium venosum L.
Artist not stated in the record · 6 Sep 1877
Playing the zither for a crane
Unidentified artist · 16th century
Quercus montana Willd.
Artist not stated in the record · 21 Apr 1929
Mythical landscape with immortals
Unidentified artist · 19th century
Batodendron arboreum Nutt.
Artist not stated in the record · 21 Apr 1929
Daoist immortals in a landscape
Unidentified artist · 16th century
Photograph of an unidentified man
Artist not stated in the record · 1910s
Chan master riding a mule
Unidentified artist · before 1249
Polycodium stamineum (L.) Greene
Artist not stated in the record · 10 Apr 1929
Portrait of Fan Zhongyan
Unidentified artist
Picture postcard to Doc Anderson Townsend
Unidentified · July 7, 1916
A Long Tale for an Autumn Night (Aki no yo nagamonogatari)
Unidentified artist · ca. 1400
Marriage Certificate of Luther Miller Pulce and Irene Jenkins
Unidentified · October 30, 1902
Canonization scroll of Li Zhong
Unidentified artist · colophon dated 1641
Joel Chandler Harris
Lucy May Stanton, 22 May 1875 - 19 Mar 1931 · c. 1914
Li Bai gazing at the waterfall on Mount Lu
Zhong Li · late 15th century
Solidago erecta Pursh
Artist not stated in the record · 1878
One hundred portraits of Peking opera characters
Unidentified artist · late 19th–early 20th century
Views around Indian Lookout and Fogo Islands, Canada
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · July 2, 1859
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. 51 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 488608 matched · 40 examined · 11 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 03:22 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.