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. 13 shown for “Manifest of enslaved people transported from Charleston, SC to Wilmington, NC” — 41 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 10:47 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Griswold and Gunnison Confederate Percussion Revolver, serial no. 2651
Griswold and Gunnison · 1864
Manifest of enslaved people transported from Charleston, SC to Wilmington, NC
Artist not stated in the record · December 22, 1859
Ship manifest detailing the transport of 92 enslaved persons
Artist not stated in the record · October 30, 1833
Manifest for the ship Fashion listing an enslaved girl, Sally, age 14
Artist not stated in the record · January 27, 1844
Letter to Samuel Fox from Giles Saunders regarding the slave trade
Artist not stated in the record · February 28, 1849
Document on distribution of six enslaved persons owned by Elizabeth Roberts
Artist not stated in the record · 1802
Large Caddisfly
Artist not stated in the record · 1969
Brown Lacewing, Brown Lacewing, Brown Lacewing
Artist not stated in the record · 1968
Bryozoa
Artist not stated in the record
Colonoware pot from Cooper River, Charleston County, SC
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
Southern Pine Sawyer
Artist not stated in the record · 1984
Bill of sale for four enslaved persons in Charleston, South Carolina
Artist not stated in the record · 1844
Leersia virginica Willd.
Artist not stated in the record · 15 Oct 1999
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. 1 matched · 1 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.1 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 3307106 matched · 40 examined · 24 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 2026-09-04 10:47 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.