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. 21 shown for “Bill of sale for four enslaved persons in Charleston, South Carolina” — 52 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 12:26 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Juan de Pareja (ca. 1608–1670)
Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) · 1650
Bill of sale for four enslaved persons in Charleston, South Carolina
Artist not stated in the record · 1844
Damascus Room
Artist not stated in the record · dated 1119 AH/1707 CE
Bill of sale for a woman, Laurett, and her daughter, Anne
S. E. Lafar, American · 1845
The Deluge towards Its Close
Joshua Shaw · ca. 1813
Bill of sale for Hannah and her children, Clarinda and Stephen
Artist not stated in the record · March 3, 1800
Evening: Landscape with an Aqueduct
Théodore Géricault · 1818
Broadside for an estate sale of "229 Rice Field Negroes"
Artist not stated in the record · 1859
Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895)
Auguste Renoir · 1878
Bill of Sale for Chloe from Z. B. Oakes to Elias N. Ball
Walker, Evans & Co., American, 1855 - 1982 · October 25, 1862
Queen Henrietta Maria
Anthony van Dyck · 1636
Sale agreements for two enslaved persons and a house in colonial New Spain
Artist not stated in the record · April 1670
Mrs. Peter De Lancey (Elizabeth Colden, 1720–1784)
George Engleheart · 1783
Bill of sale for two enslaved women, Nelly and Milley, and their six children
Artist not stated in the record · 1832
The Musicians
Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi) · 1597
Bill of sale for an enslaved woman named Rosner in Louisiana
Artist not stated in the record · 1862
Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zuñiga (1784–1792)
Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · 1787–88
Bill of sale for an enslaved woman named Nancy
Artist not stated in the record · February 1844
Bill of sale for an enslaved man named Jack
Thomas Seymour III, American, 1735 - 1829 · January 22, 1785
Sale agreements for enslaved persons Miguel and Juan in colonial New Spain
Artist not stated in the record · April 1670
Bill of sale for Will, an enslaved man
A. J. Burke, American, born 1817 · 1858
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. 12 matched · 12 examined · 3 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.9 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 7484583 matched · 40 examined · 5 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 2026-09-04 12:26 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.