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. 12 shown for “Broadside for a New Orleans auction of 18 enslaved persons from Alabama” — 40 records examined, 10 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 07:54 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.
Broadside for a New Orleans auction of 18 enslaved persons from Alabama
Artist not stated in the record · 1858
Broadside for the auction of 10 enslaved families in New Orleans
Artist not stated in the record · 1855
Broadside advertising "Valuable Slaves at Auction" in New Orleans
Artist not stated in the record · February 3, 1859
New England Loyal Publication Society No. 147
Artist not stated in the record · 1863
Manifest for the ship Fashion listing an enslaved girl, Sally, age 14
Artist not stated in the record · January 27, 1844
Broadside for an auction of enslaved persons at the Charleston courthouse
Unidentified · 1859
The Daily Picayune
Artist not stated in the record · July 10, 1856
Ship manifest detailing the transport of 92 enslaved persons
Artist not stated in the record · October 30, 1833
Broadside for an estate sale of "229 Rice Field Negroes"
Artist not stated in the record · 1859
Broadside announcing the sale of enslaved persons in Mercer County, Kentucky
Artist not stated in the record · 1836
Deed of sale for an enslaved man named Pierre
Artist not stated in the record · December 8, 1860
Broadside for the sale of enslaved persons and other property of William Bland
Artist not stated in the record · 1847
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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 4852368 matched · 40 examined · 10 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 2026-09-01 07:54 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.