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. 18 shown for “House of Representatives anti-lynching cover” — 64 records examined, 31 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 18:43 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Mummy Board of Iineferty
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE
House of Representatives anti-lynching cover
Artist not stated in the record · September 29, 1936
Damascus Room
Artist not stated in the record · dated 1119 AH/1707 CE
Southern Women Look at Lynching
Jessie Daniel Ames, American, 1883 - 1972 · 1937
House model
Nayarit artist(s) · 200 BCE–300 CE
The Slave's Friend
Artist not stated in the record · 1839
Man in Prayer
Rogier van der Weyden · ca. 1440
Defense of the Negro Race----Charges Answered. Speech of Hon. George H. White, of North Carolina, in the House of Representatives, January 29, 1901
Artist not stated in the record · January 29, 1901
A Book Peddler
Master of the Canesso Peddler · ca. 1670–90
They Shall Not Die!: Stop the Legal Lynching!: The Story of Scottsboro in Pictures
Artist not stated in the record · 1932
Armor Garniture of George Clifford (1558–1605), Third Earl of Cumberland
Jacob Halder · 1586
3c Washington on Confederate cover
Artist not stated in the record · May 25, 1861
Civil Rights Speech of Hon. Alonzo J. Ransier, of South Carolina, in The House of Representatives, February 7, 1874
Artist not stated in the record · 1874
Pinback button supporting the Scottsboro Boys
Eagle Regalia Company, American, founded 1910 · 1931
Free Frank cover from England signed by the Earl of Dartmouth
Artist not stated in the record · July 10, 1832
1c Franklin on Confederate cover
Artist not stated in the record · May 25, 1861
10c Jefferson Davis Type I single on cover
Artist not stated in the record · March 1, [1864]
3c Washington on Confederate cover
Artist not stated in the record · May 15, 1861
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. 528 matched · 24 examined · 18 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.6 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 139 matched · 40 examined · 13 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 2026-09-06 18:43 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.