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 “Letter Signed by Frederick Douglass on Freedmen's Savings Bank letterhead” — 40 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 15:18 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Letter Signed by Frederick Douglass on Freedmen's Savings Bank letterhead
Artist not stated in the record · 1874
Letter written by John Brown and Frederick Douglass to Brown's wife and children
Artist not stated in the record · January 30, 1858
Dividend check from Freedman's Savings and Trust Company
Artist not stated in the record · 1880
Letter to Mr. Carroll Wilson from Countee Cullen
Artist not stated in the record · April, 25 1928
Letter to Charley Pride from Richard Nixon
Artist not stated in the record · October 26, 1971
Frederick Douglass' Paper
Artist not stated in the record · July 28, 1854
Letter to Charles Humbert Marie Vincent signed by Toussaint Louverture
Artist not stated in the record · October 21, 1797
Letter to Lucille Brown from Annie Malone Pope-Turnbo
Artist not stated in the record · March 25, 1915
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
Artist not stated in the record · 1845
Envelope for letter from H.W. Sewing for Daisy Bates Trust Fund
Unidentified · Feb 17, 1960
Letter to Mary Church Terrell from Joseph Douglass
Artist not stated in the record · May 31, 1911
The North Star, Vol. I No. 37
The North Star, American, 1847 - 1859 · September 8, 1848
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. 1425670 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 2026-09-06 15:18 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.