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. 19 shown for “Program from the Cotton Club” — 64 records examined, 41 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 20:17 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Diptych with Scenes of the Annunciation, Nativity, Crucifixion, and Resurrection
Artist not stated in the record · 1300–1325
Program from the Cotton Club
Artist not stated in the record · 1938
Hercules and Achelous
Master of the Martyrdom of St. Sebastian · probably mid-17th century
Fan from the Cotton Club
Artist not stated in the record · 1923-1935
Chuspa (coca bag)
Moche artist(s) · 650-850 CE
Bottle tag from the Cotton Club
Artist not stated in the record · 1923-1933
Four-Cornered Hat
Artist not stated in the record · 7th–9th century
Wooden clapper from the Cotton Club promoting Ethel Waters
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1933
Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary)
Paul Gauguin · 1891
Broadside for Duke Ellington and Cotton Club Orchestra
Artist not stated in the record · 1933-1934
Coat (Choga)
Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century or earlier
Program for Club Ebony
Artist not stated in the record · 1947-1948
Vase Carpet
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century
Program for Club Ebony
Artist not stated in the record · 1947-1948
Fan Mount: Dancers
Edgar Degas · 1879
The Rehearsal of the Ballet Onstage
Edgar Degas · ca. 1874
The Return from the Hunt
Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio) · ca. 1494–1500
The Flight into Egypt
Cosmè Tura (Cosimo di Domenico di Bonaventura) · 1470s
Kitab suwar al-kawakib al-thabita (Book of the Images of the Fixed Stars) of al-Sufi
`Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi · late 15th century
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. 60 matched · 24 examined · 8 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. 1382543 matched · 40 examined · 33 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.7 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 20:17 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.