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 “United States Navy, American, founded 1775” — 64 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 07:04 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
State bed from Hampton Court, Herefordshire
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1698
Photograph of James Lane firing a gun on the deck of the USS Indianapolis
Artist not stated in the record · July 1942
Jug
John Crolius · 1775
Streamer for Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation owned by Gen. Colin Powell
United States Navy, American, founded 1775 · ca. 1989-1993
Masonic Armchair
Artist not stated in the record · 1775–90
Streamer for Navy Unit Commendation owned by Gen. Colin Powell
United States Navy, American, founded 1775 · ca. 1989-1993
Mars and Venus United by Love
Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari) · 1570s
Pinback button for the 50th Anniversary of Pearl Harbor owned by Ck2c Bland
Houston Franklin James, American, 1924 - 2015 · ca. 1991
An Exact View of the Late Battle at Charlestown, June 17th, 1775
Bernard Romans · ca. 1775
Navy Good Conduct Medal awarded to Ck2c George Francis Bland
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1944
Embroidered whitework coverlet
Catharine Woolsey · 1822
Pearl Harbor Commemorative Medal awarded to Ck2c George Francis Bland
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1990
Flintlock Longrifle
Jacob Kuntz · ca. 1810–20
Continuous service records for Alton Augustus Adams, Sr.
Artist not stated in the record · 1917-1945
United States Continental Currency – Twenty Dollars
Hall and Sellers, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · September 26, 1778
Pearl Harbor Survivors Official Membership Card for Ck2c George F. Bland
Artist not stated in the record · 2010
Viola
Robert Horne · 1757
Seal of the United States Navy owned by Gen. Colin Powell
United States Armed Forces, American, founded 1775 · 1989-1993
Tambourine
Artist not stated in the record · mid 19th century
Pearl Harbor Survivors Official Membership Card for Ck2c George F. Bland
Artist not stated in the record · 1991
Tea Urn
Paul Revere Jr. · 1791
Pearl Harbor Survivors Official Membership Card for Ck2c George F. Bland
Artist not stated in the record · 1981
Ewer
Thomas Fletcher · 1830–40
US Navy dress jumper worn by Lorenzo DuFau on USS Mason
Artist not stated in the record · 1944-1945
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. 5195 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. 6029156 matched · 40 examined · 14 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 07:04 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.