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. 10 shown for “Ceremonial Pen Used By President Lyndon Johnson To Sign The Civil Rights Act Of 1964” — 44 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-08 21:29 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)
Georges Seurat · 1887–88
Ceremonial Pen Used By President Lyndon Johnson To Sign The Civil Rights Act Of 1964
Artist not stated in the record · 1964
Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement
Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440
Ceremonial Pen Used By President Lyndon Johnson To Sign The Voting Rights Act
Artist not stated in the record · 1965
The Natchez
Eugène Delacroix · 1823–24 and 1835
Pen used by Lyndon B. Johnson to sign the 1964 Civil Rights Act
Esterbrook Pen Company, American, 1947 - 1967 · July 2, 1964
Pen used by Lyndon B. Johnson to sign the 1965 Voting Rights Act
Esterbrook Pen Company, American, 1947 - 1967 · 1965
Johnson-Humphrey Inaugural Committee Pin With Ribbon and Medal
Artist not stated in the record · 1965
Letter from Jacquelyn Kennedy Onassis to Congressman William McCulloch
Artist not stated in the record · June 24, 1971
Civil Rights! Miscegenation Allowed by Congress, Despite the Veto of the President
Unidentified · 1866
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. 4 matched · 4 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.3 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 3560435 matched · 40 examined · 33 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.7 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-08 21:29 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.