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. 8 shown for “Marriage certificate with tintypes of Augustus L. Johnson and Malinda Murphy” — 40 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 21:24 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Marriage certificate with tintypes of Augustus L. Johnson and Malinda Murphy
Artist not stated in the record · July 9, 1874
Marriage license and certificate for James Trumbo and Catherine Williams
Artist not stated in the record · October 6, 1866
Marriage license and certificate for Benjamin Petty and Mary Robinson
Artist not stated in the record · November 7, 1871
Tintype portrait of USCT soldier William Johnson
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1865
Tintype of man and woman in wedding attire
Unidentified · 1870s
Marriage Certificate of Luther Miller Pulce and Irene Jenkins
Unidentified · October 30, 1902
Facsimile of original marriage certificate of Charles II and Catherine of Portugal
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century
George Linen Marriage Certificate
Artist not stated in the record · April 1, 1833
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. 3949410 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 21:24 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.