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 “Theatre poster featuring Ira Aldridge performing in Lovers of Bourbon” — 40 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 04:54 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Theatre poster featuring Ira Aldridge performing in Lovers of Bourbon
Artist not stated in the record · 1856
Playbill for Ira Aldridge in Othello and The Slave at the Theatre Royal
Artist not stated in the record · 1857
Ira Aldridge as Othello
Henry Perronet Briggs, c. 1791 - 18 Jan 1844 · c. 1830
Poster for a Black Theatre for Black Panthers benefit performance
Artist not stated in the record · May 20, 1968
Ira Aldridge
Unidentified Artist · c. 1865
Poster for Mattie Wilkes performance at Holliday Street Theater
Artist not stated in the record · 1899-1905
Poster advertising Fats Waller's performance at Empire Theatre at Finsbury Park
Unidentified · 1938
Letter from Ira Aldridge to B. Webster
Ira Frederick Aldridge, 24 Jul 1807 - 10 Aug 1867
Poster of Josephine Baker advertising her performance at the Strand Theater
Unidentified · 1951
Announcement for Roland Hayes Performance at the Oakland Auditorium Theatre
Artist not stated in the record · November 10, 1961
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. The archive returned no records for this term.0 matched - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 7483511 matched · 40 examined · 30 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.10 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 04:54 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.