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. 7 shown for “Joe Lecates” — 40 records examined, 33 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 01:04 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Wooden RFD mailbox
Joe Lecates · c. 1896-1900
Joe Louis
Underwood & Underwood, active 1880 - c. 1940s · c. 1935
King Joe Part I (Joe Louis Blues) / King Joe Part II (Joe Louis Blues)
Artist not stated in the record · 1941
Pvt. Joe Louis Says...
Unidentified Artist · 1942
Ticket to a championship boxing match between Joe Louis and Jim Braddock
Arcus Ticket, Co., American · June 22, 1937
Advertisement for boxing match between Joe Louis and Max Schmeling
Twentieth Century Sporting Club, American, 1933 - 1949 · 1938
Baseball from the 1992 World Series autographed by Joe Carter
Rawlings, American, founded 1887 · 1992
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. 3748 matched · 40 examined · 33 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.7 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 01:04 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.