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. 8 shown for “Chicago NAACP Race Restrictive Covenants cover” — 42 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 16:46 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Two Tahitian Women
Paul Gauguin · 1899
Chicago NAACP Race Restrictive Covenants cover
Artist not stated in the record · June 6, 1945
The Horse Fair
Rosa Bonheur · 1852–55
Handbill for a speaking engagement of Rev. Morris H. Tynes on Emmett Till
Boston NAACP, American, founded 1911 · October 9, 1955
Handbill for a speaking engagement of Rev. Morris H. Tynes on Emmett Till
Boston NAACP, American, founded 1911 · October 9, 1955
Annual 18th Meeting Minutes of the Grand Lodge, Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the World
Artist not stated in the record · 1917
Photograph of airmail pilot Reuben Wagner
Artist not stated in the record · September 1, 1929
M is for Mississippi and Murder
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, American, founded 1909 · November 1955
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. 2 matched · 2 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.2 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 191237 matched · 40 examined · 34 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.6 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-06 16:46 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.