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. 11 shown for “Cornelius Marion Battey, 26 Aug 1873 - 14 Mar 1927” — 40 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 15:23 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
W.E.B. Du Bois
Cornelius Marion Battey, 26 Aug 1873 - 14 Mar 1927 · c. 1906
The Crisis Vol. 19 No. 1
Artist not stated in the record · November 1919
Frederick Douglass
C. M. Battey, American, 1873 - 1927 · ca. 1895
Booker T. Washington
C. M. Battey, American, 1873 - 1927 · ca. 1908
W.E.B. Du Bois
C. M. Battey, American, 1873 - 1927 · 1918
Photograph of graduation at Tuskegee Institute
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1916-1918
Cristellaria orelliana Stadnichenko, 1927
Artist not stated in the record
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
Echinacea pallida (Nutt.) Nutt.
Artist not stated in the record · 14 Jun 1873
Cornelius Low
Hiram Powers, born Woodstock, VT 1805-died Florence, Italy 1873 · modeled 1841
Dendroica pinus
Artist not stated in the record · 19 Mar 1936
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. The archive returned no records for this term.0 matched - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1997192 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-06 15:23 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.