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. 18 shown for “Old Jim Crow Has Got to Go!” — 64 records examined, 37 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 10:58 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
A Hunting Scene
Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio) · ca. 1494–1500
Old Jim Crow Has Got to Go!
Artist not stated in the record · 1941
Federico Gonzaga (1500–1540)
Francesco Francia · 1510
Letter describing defeat of slave catchers in a battle with ten fugitives
Artist not stated in the record · November 9,1858
Landscapes after old masters
Wang Hui · dated 1674 and 1677
Mesoplodon europaeus (Gervais, 1855)
Artist not stated in the record · 24 May 1977
Whalers
Joseph Mallord William Turner · ca. 1845
Schedule of the Estate of Mrs. Sarah B. Preston.
Artist not stated in the record · August 28, 1847
Virgin and Child in a Niche
Jan van Eyck · ca. 1440–50
Berardius bairdii Stejneger, 1883
Artist not stated in the record · 23 Jul 1985
The Denial of Saint Peter
Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi) · 1610
Ziphius cavirostris Cuvier, 1823
Artist not stated in the record · 28 Oct 1976
Venus and Adonis
Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) · 1550s
The Birth of the Virgin
Fra Carnevale (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini) · 1467
The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment
Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38
The Return from the Hunt
Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio) · ca. 1494–1500
The Meditation on the Passion
Vittore Carpaccio · ca. 1490
Juan de Pareja (ca. 1608–1670)
Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) · 1650
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. 25 matched · 24 examined · 3 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.12 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 970931 matched · 40 examined · 34 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.6 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-05 10:58 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.