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. 13 shown for “The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African” — 47 records examined, 34 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 Adoration of the Magi
Quinten Massys · 1526
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African
Artist not stated in the record · 1789; republished 1837
Battle between Christians and Muslims at El Sotillo
Francisco de Zurbarán · ca. 1637–39
Biographical Sketches and Interesting Anecdotes of Persons of Colour. To Which Is Added, a Selection of Pieces in Poetry
Artist not stated in the record · 1838
Esther before Ahasuerus
Artemisia Gentileschi · 1620s
Biographical Sketches and Interesting Anecdotes of Persons of Colour. To Which Is Added, a Selection of Pieces in Poetry
Artist not stated in the record · 1826
Pilate Washing His Hands
Mattia Preti (Il Cavalier Calabrese) · 1663
Olaudah Equiano
Daniel Orme, 1766 - 1832 · 1789
A Cat Stealing Fish
Giuseppe Recco · late 1660s
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
Artist not stated in the record · 1845
A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa
Artist not stated in the record · 1798
Letter written by William Lloyd Garrison
Artist not stated in the record · 1851
A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison
Artist not stated in the record
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. 7 matched · 7 examined · 2 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. 3018397 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 2026-09-06 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.