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. 15 shown for “Payment receipt for the hiring out of an enslaved man named Lewis” — 43 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-31 23:02 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
The Honorable Henry Fane (1739–1802) with Inigo Jones and Charles Blair
Sir Joshua Reynolds · 1761–66
Payment receipt for the hiring out of an enslaved man named Lewis
Artist not stated in the record · January 16, 1811
Salome
Henri Regnault · 1870
Payment receipt for hire of an enslaved man to the estate of John Rouzee
Artist not stated in the record · November 16, 1826
Fisherman's Lodge At Mount Xisai
Li Jie · ca. 1170
Payment receipt to Rosa Gray for the hire of an enslaved man, Cook
Artist not stated in the record · January 28, 1813
Payment receipt for the hire of a woman enslaved and owned by Edward Rouzee
Artist not stated in the record · April 14, 1804
Letter and payment receipt for hire of enslaved persons owned by Apphia Rouzee
Artist not stated in the record · January 1, 1802
Payment receipt for the hiring of enslaved persons owned by Apphia Rouzee
Artist not stated in the record · January 2, 1802
Bond for the hire of the enslaved man Jacob by Edward Rouzee
Artist not stated in the record · October 28, 1808
Payment receipt for $25 for bringing an enslaved man from Turks Island
Artist not stated in the record · July 9, 1815
Payment receipt for apprehending Braxton, property of Edward Rouzee
Artist not stated in the record · September 16, 1829
List of payments to Apphia Rouzee in account with John Rouzee
Artist not stated in the record · 1811-1813
Payment request for passage of an enslaved man from Bermuda to Virginia
Artist not stated in the record · January 18, 1816
List of enslaved persons hired out by AB Rouzee for the year 1812
Artist not stated in the record · 1812
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. 3 matched · 3 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.3 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 7473448 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 23:02 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.