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. 16 shown for “Key tool carried by Pullman Porter Robert Thomas” — 64 records examined, 37 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-31 21:45 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Sickle Insert
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1080 BCE
Key tool carried by Pullman Porter Robert Thomas
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1920
Sickle Insert
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1080 BCE
Shoehorn carried by Pullman Porter Robert Thomas
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1920
Sickle Insert
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1080 BCE
Metal bottle opener carried by Robert Thomas
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1920
Sickle Insert
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1200–1080 BCE
Uniform vest owned by Pullman Porter Robert Thomas
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1920
Sickle Insert
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1080 BCE
Sickle Insert
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1080 BCE
Uniform cap owned by Pullman Porter Robert Thomas
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1920
Uniform coat owned by Pullman Porter Robert Thomas
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1920
Hole punch used by Pullman porter Thomas McCord
Pullman Palace Car Company, American, 1867 - 1969 · 1940s
Train car sign from the Pullman Company used by Thomas McCord
Pullman Palace Car Company, American, 1867 - 1969 · ca. 1943
Advertisement from the Saturday Evening Post featuring a Pullman Porter
J.C. Leyendecker, American, 1874 - 1951 · June 17, 1922
Clothes hanger used by Pullman porters
Artist not stated in the record · early to mid 20th century
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. 109 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. 818537 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 2026-08-31 21:45 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.