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. 12 shown for “Document Sealing” — 40 records examined, 23 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 04:53 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 Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.
Seal of the Post Office of Great Britain for the Province of South Carolina
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1771-1775
Will of Frederick Smith leaving an enslaved girl named Betty to his wife
Artist not stated in the record · March 27, 1802
Hiring agreement for an enslaved woman named Martha in South Carolina
Artist not stated in the record · December 31, 1858
Postal account assessment document
Artist not stated in the record · September 12, 1815
Deed of sale including 237 enslaved persons in transaction
Artist not stated in the record · August 20, 1798
Bill of sale for a 17 year old girl named Mary
Artist not stated in the record · December 30, 1836
Stock share certificate for the Royal African Company
Artist not stated in the record · 1691
Certificate of appointment for a CSA postmaster
Artist not stated in the record · August 9, 1861
Land indenture for the Barbados plantation of Captain Gunston
Artist not stated in the record · March 28, 1685
Letters of Patent for a "Spring Egg Cup"
Artist not stated in the record · 1860
Document announcing Connecticut's opposition to banning free Blacks
Oliver Wolcott Jr., 1760 - 1833 · 1825
Will of Joseph Rickett leaving enslaved individuals to his brother
Artist not stated in the record · September 23, 1736
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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 24256 matched · 40 examined · 23 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 2026-08-27 04:53 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.