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. 12 shown for “The Negro in Business” — 40 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 09:32 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 Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.
The Negro in Business
Artist not stated in the record · 1907
Poster for the Harlem Better Business League
Harlem Better Business League, American, ca. 1940 · ca. 1940
National Negro Business League pin
G. Addison Turner, American · ca. 1908
Handbill for an early Texas Juneteenth commemoration
Artist not stated in the record · June 19, 1914
Letter to Dorothy Porter from W.C. Handy
Artist not stated in the record · March 1, 1939
Account for "supporting chargeable negroes" belonging to A.B. Rouzee
Artist not stated in the record · 1811-1813
Trade card for the "Great Negro Mart" in Memphis, Tennessee
Artist not stated in the record · 1859-1860
Payment receipt to Elizabeth Noel for "attendance on negro woman Amy"
Artist not stated in the record · December 23, 1823
![Receipt for "the carriage of two familyes [sic] of negroes to Culpeper"](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fdownload%3Fid%3DNMAAHC-2011_104_39_001.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Receipt for "the carriage of two familyes [sic] of negroes to Culpeper"
Artist not stated in the record · January 1808
Lists of enslaved persons hired out by the Rouzee family in 1811
Artist not stated in the record · 1811
Payment receipt to Eliza Noel for "attendance on a negro woman named Janet"
Artist not stated in the record · March 18, 1824
Bill of sale for a 42-year-old man named Isaac to John Rouzee
Artist not stated in the record · October 24, 1810
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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 7483510 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 2026-09-01 09:32 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.