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. 24 shown for “Claim awarded by the Confederate state of South Carolina for enslaved man Dick” — 55 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 22:57 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Juan de Pareja (ca. 1608–1670)
Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) · 1650
Claim awarded by the Confederate state of South Carolina for enslaved man Dick
Artist not stated in the record · November 23, 1864
Young Lady in 1866
Edouard Manet · 1866
Document on distribution of six enslaved persons owned by Elizabeth Roberts
Artist not stated in the record · 1802
Side chair
D. Phyfe & Son · 1841
Broadside announcing the sale of a man, Dick, and a girl, Lydia
Artist not stated in the record · 1857
Untitled
Dave (later recorded as David Drake) · 1858
Broadside for an estate sale of "229 Rice Field Negroes"
Artist not stated in the record · 1859
Gabriel Manigault
Jeremiah Theus · 1757
Broadside offering reward for the capture of the enslaved man Richard Low
Artist not stated in the record · July 19, 1853
Mrs. Gabriel Manigault
Jeremiah Theus · 1757
Bill of sale for four enslaved persons in Charleston, South Carolina
Artist not stated in the record · 1844
Side chair
D. Phyfe & Son · 1841
Deed of sale for an enslaved man named Pierre
Artist not stated in the record · December 8, 1860
Whalers
Joseph Mallord William Turner · ca. 1845
Broadside for an auction of enslaved persons at the Charleston courthouse
Unidentified · 1859
Evening: Landscape with an Aqueduct
Théodore Géricault · 1818
Certificate of enlistment for Tilghman Detter
United States Army, American, founded 1775 · June 6, 1865
Pope Benedict XIV (Prospero Lambertini, 1675–1758)
Pierre Hubert Subleyras · 1746
Broadside announcing the sale of enslaved persons in Mercer County, Kentucky
Artist not stated in the record · 1836
Woman with a Parrot
Gustave Courbet · 1866
Manifest of enslaved people transported from Charleston, SC to Wilmington, NC
Artist not stated in the record · December 22, 1859
Hacha head
Classic Veracruz artist(s) · 600–900 CE
Bill of sale for two enslaved women, Nelly and Milley, and their six children
Artist not stated in the record · 1832
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. 15 matched · 15 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. 6711523 matched · 40 examined · 19 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 2026-09-04 22:57 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.