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. 14 shown for “Bahamian bill of sale for enslaved individuals, Trim and Flora” — 42 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 00:38 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Portrait of a Woman and an Enslaved Servant
Nicolas de Largillierre (or Largillière) · 1696
Bahamian bill of sale for enslaved individuals, Trim and Flora
Artist not stated in the record · February 8, 1799
The Adoration of the Magi
Quinten Massys · 1526
Bill of sale for Flora, a woman enslaved in Connecticut
Unidentified Maker · December 13, 1796
Bill of sale for Flora, a woman enslaved in Connecticut
Artist not stated in the record · December 13, 1796
Bill of sale for an enslaved man named Jack
Thomas Seymour III, American, 1735 - 1829 · January 22, 1785
Bill of sale regarding an enslaved woman named Jenny
John Tayloe III, American, 1770 - 1828 · July 1, 1799
Bill of sale for four enslaved persons in Charleston, South Carolina
Artist not stated in the record · 1844
Bill of sale for an enslaved woman named Rosner in Louisiana
Artist not stated in the record · 1862
Sale agreements for two enslaved persons and a house in colonial New Spain
Artist not stated in the record · April 1670
Broadside for a New Orleans auction of 18 enslaved persons from Alabama
Artist not stated in the record · 1858
Bill of sale for an enslaved woman named Nancy
Artist not stated in the record · February 1844
Bill of sale with two transactions for an enslaved man named Joe or Joseph
Artist not stated in the record · 1844
Bill of sale for two enslaved women, Nelly and Milley, and their six children
Artist not stated in the record · 1832
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. 2 matched · 2 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.2 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 3161755 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 2026-09-05 00:38 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.