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 Poems of Phillis Wheatley” — 41 records examined, 11 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 17:25 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Phillis Wheatley
Scipio Moorhead · 1773
The Poems of Phillis Wheatley
Artist not stated in the record · 1909
An Essay on the Causes of the Variety of Complexion and Figure in the Human Species
Artist not stated in the record · 1810
Ocean
Phillis Wheatley Peters, American, ca. 1753 - 1784 · 1773
Poems on Various Subjects Religious and Moral
Artist not stated in the record · 1773
Phillis Wheatley
Artist not stated in the record · 1930
Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley, a Native African and a Slave. Also, Poems by a Slave
Artist not stated in the record · 1838
Poems on Comic, Serious and Moral Subjects by Phillis Wheatley, Negro Servant to Mr. John Wheatley, of Boston, in New-England
Artist not stated in the record · 1787
"To A Gentleman of the Navy" in Royal American Magazine
Artist not stated in the record · December 1774
The Negro Equalled by Few Europeans. Translated From the French. To Which Are Added, Poems on Various Subjects, Moral and Entertaining; By Phillis Wheatley, Negro Servant to Mr. John Wheatley, of Boston, in New-England. In Two Volumes. Vol. II.
Artist not stated in the record · 1801
Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley, a Native African and a Slave, Dedicated to the Friends of the Africans
Artist not stated in the record · 1835
"On Recollection," in The Gentleman's Magazine
Artist not stated in the record · September 1773
The American Female Poets: With Biographical and Critical Notices
Artist not stated in the record · 1848
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. 1 matched · 1 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.1 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 2983433 matched · 40 examined · 11 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 2026-09-02 17:25 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.