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. 10 shown for “Shotgun shell found outside the16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham” — 45 records examined, 35 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 15:18 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 Crucifixion; The Last Judgment
Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38
Shotgun shell found outside the16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham
Artist not stated in the record · September 1963
The Birth of the Virgin
Fra Carnevale (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini) · 1467
Ten shards of stained glass
Unidentified · September 1963
The Vision of Saint John
El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1608–14
Ceramic plate commemorating the Centennial of the 16th Street Baptist Church
Kettlesprings Kilns, American, founded 1950 · 1973
The Jabach Family
Charles Le Brun · ca. 1660
Stained glass rosette shard from the 16th Street Baptist Church
Unidentified · ca. 1963
Virgin and Child
Joos van Cleve · ca. 1525
Deacon's chair from Spruce Street Baptist Church, Nashville
Unidentified · ca. 1900
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. 5 matched · 5 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.5 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 7462757 matched · 40 examined · 35 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.5 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-06 15:18 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.