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 “William H. Rau, born Phildelphia, PA 1855-died Phildelphia, PA 1920” — 18 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-08 14:24 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Jalais Hill, Pontoise
Camille Pissarro · 1867
Full Moon
William H. Rau, born Phildelphia, PA 1855-died Phildelphia, PA 1920 · n.d.
Joséphine-Éléonore-Marie-Pauline de Galard de Brassac de Béarn (1825–1860), Princesse de Broglie
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres · 1851–53
He Wanted a New Pair
William H. Rau, born Phildelphia, PA 1855-died Phildelphia, PA 1920 · 1896-1903
Mars and Venus United by Love
Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari) · 1570s
Photographing Our Country Cousins
William H. Rau, born Phildelphia, PA 1855-died Phildelphia, PA 1920 · 1896-1903
Eavesdroppers
William H. Rau, born Phildelphia, PA 1855-died Phildelphia, PA 1920 · 1896-1903
Eavesdroppers Dropped
William H. Rau, born Phildelphia, PA 1855-died Phildelphia, PA 1920 · 1896-1903
33rd Encampment G. A. R., O. Rork Post. Rochester, N.Y.
William H. Rau, born Phildelphia, PA 1855-died Phildelphia, PA 1920 · n.d.
Admiral Dewey, Hero of Manila
William H. Rau, born Phildelphia, PA 1855-died Phildelphia, PA 1920 · after 1898
Peace Jubilee, Philadelphia. Triumphal Arch, Court of Honor, Illuminated
William H. Rau, born Phildelphia, PA 1855-died Phildelphia, PA 1920 · 1898
Oil Pumping Station, near Athens, for the Lehigh Valley Railroad
William H. Rau, born Phildelphia, PA 1855-died Phildelphia, PA 1920 · 1899
Lehigh Valley from Piccadilly Hill, for the Lehigh Valley Railroad
William H. Rau, born Phildelphia, PA 1855-died Phildelphia, PA 1920 · ca. 1895
Seneca Lake and Watkins Glen, for the Lehigh Valley Railroad
William H. Rau, born Phildelphia, PA 1855-died Phildelphia, PA 1920 · 1899
Owasco Lake, Cascade Glen, for the Lehigh Valley Railroad
William H. Rau, born Phildelphia, PA 1855-died Phildelphia, PA 1920 · 1899
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. 3 matched · 3 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.3 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 15 matched · 15 examined · 0 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 2026-09-08 14:24 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.