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. 18 shown for “Agreement regarding hiring of enslaved woman Nelly and her children” — 46 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-07 11:08 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Madonna and Child
Filippino Lippi · ca. 1483–84
Agreement regarding hiring of enslaved woman Nelly and her children
Artist not stated in the record · December 22, 1810
Venus and Cupid
Lorenzo Lotto · 1520s
Bill of sale for two enslaved women, Nelly and Milley, and their six children
Artist not stated in the record · 1832
Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456)
Hans Memling · ca. 1470
Hiring agreement for an enslaved woman named Martha in South Carolina
Artist not stated in the record · December 31, 1858
The Laundress
Honoré Daumier · 186[3?]
Payment receipt for the hire of a woman enslaved and owned by Edward Rouzee
Artist not stated in the record · April 14, 1804
Saint John the Baptist; Saint Lucy
Perugino (Pietro di Cristoforo Vannucci)
Albumen print of enslaved women and their children near Alexandria, Virginia
James E. Larkin, American · December 2, 1861 to March 10, 1862
A Peasant Family
Antoine Le Nain · ca. 1640–48
Appraisal of a plantation owned by Elisha King listing 43 enslaved persons
Artist not stated in the record · 1852
Invoice for weaving and the hiring of an enslaved woman, Philice
Artist not stated in the record · 1805-1807
Letter to M. C. Taylor from T. Heatherly regarding the slave trade
Artist not stated in the record · December 19, 1840
Memorandum of enslaved men and women hired or not hired for 1794
Artist not stated in the record · 1794
Transcript of court record regarding payment for the hire of enslaved persons
Artist not stated in the record · September 18, 1817
Tintype of Emmaline
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1882
Transcript of court record regarding payment for hire of enslaved persons
Artist not stated in the record · December 2, 1808
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. 6 matched · 6 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.6 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 3108694 matched · 40 examined · 12 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 2026-09-07 11:08 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.