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 “C. M. Battey, American, 1873 - 1927” — 64 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 13:50 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 Abduction of Rebecca
Eugène Delacroix · 1846
Booker T. Washington
C. M. Battey, American, 1873 - 1927 · ca. 1908
Boating
Edouard Manet · 1874
Frederick Douglass
C. M. Battey, American, 1873 - 1927 · ca. 1895
Madonna and Child
Carlo Crivelli · ca. 1480
W.E.B. Du Bois
C. M. Battey, American, 1873 - 1927 · 1918
Sir Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640)
Anthony van Dyck
Photograph of graduation at Tuskegee Institute
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1916-1918
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints
Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1504
The Crisis Vol. 19 No. 1
Artist not stated in the record · November 1919
Horsewoman
Théodore Géricault · 1820 or later
W.E.B. Du Bois
Cornelius Marion Battey, 26 Aug 1873 - 14 Mar 1927 · c. 1906
Still Life with Apples and Pitcher
Camille Pissarro · 1872
Interior view of tobacco and newspaper store. Display includes wall calendar displaying C.M. Battey's photographs for National Benefit Association
Daniel Freeman, born Alexandria, VA 1868-died 1927 · 1917
Terracotta oinochoe: chous (jug)
Meidias Painter · ca. 420–410 BCE
Cristellaria orelliana Stadnichenko, 1927
Artist not stated in the record
Salvator Mundi
Albrecht Dürer · ca. 1505
Cystopteris diaphana (Bory) Blasdell
Artist not stated in the record · 14 Jan 1927 to 31 Jan 1927
A Mother's Pearls
Thomas Seir Cummings · 1841
Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)
Georges Seurat · 1887–88
An Egyptian Peasant Woman and Her Child
Léon Bonnat · 1869–70
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. 25 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 2969790 matched · 40 examined · 31 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.9 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-06 13:50 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.