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. 20 shown for “Birth and Baptismal Certificate” — 64 records examined, 33 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 07:10 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Birth and baptismal certificate
Johann Heinrich Otto · 1786
birth and baptismal certificate, fraktur
Artist not stated in the record · ca 1774
Birth and Baptismal Certificate
Johann Heinrich Otto · 1782
Certificate of baptism signed by Rev. Volley V. K. Stokes
Artist not stated in the record · 1940
Birth and Baptismal Certificate
Artist not stated in the record · 1810
Fraktur: Baptismal Certificate of Maria Schaeffer
P. Otto · 1820
Birth and Baptismal Certificate
Artist not stated in the record · 1784
![Taufschein [Birth Certificate], by Johann Ritter, German, 1779 - 1851](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fdownload%3Fid%3DCHSDM-DD96BA3D9AE12-000001.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Taufschein [Birth Certificate]
Johann Ritter, German, 1779 - 1851 · 1816
Birth and Baptismal Certificate
Artist not stated in the record · 1787
Fraktur taufschein (Birth Certificate)
Johann Jacob Friedrich Krebs, German, active United States, ca. 1749 - 1815 · ca. 1804
Birth and Baptismal Certificate
Artist not stated in the record · 1769
Birth Certificate
Heinrich Ebner, active United States, 1783 - 1850 · 1821
Birth and Baptismal Certificate
Artist not stated in the record · 1822
Birth Certificate
Heinrich Ebner, active United States, 1783 - 1850 · 1818
Birth and Baptismal Certificate
Artist not stated in the record · 1802
Baptising Scene by Endicott & Swett
Van Valkenburgh, James · 1834
Birth and Baptismal Certificate
Artist not stated in the record · 1789
Birth and Baptismal Certificate
Artist not stated in the record · 1780
Birth and Baptismal Certificate
Artist not stated in the record · 1795
Birth and Baptismal Certificate
Henrich Dulhauer · 1784
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. 49 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 1463698 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 07:10 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.