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 “Three spent cases from Sergeant Cornelius H. Charlton's funeral volley” — 40 records examined, 23 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 23:48 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Three spent cases from Sergeant Cornelius H. Charlton's funeral volley
Artist not stated in the record · 1989
U.S. Burial Flag for Sergeant Cornelius H. Charlton
Unidentified · 2008
Bagged shell casings from General Colin L. Powell's burial service
3rd Infantry Regiment · November 5, 2021
Shell casing from Normandy Beaches, D-Day 1944
Artist not stated in the record · 1944
Shell casing from Normandy Beaches, D-Day 1944
Artist not stated in the record · 1944
Program from Martin Luther King, Jr.'s funeral at the Ebenezer Baptist Church
Unidentified · April 9, 1968
Photographic print of men gathered for State Funeral Directors' meeting
Artist not stated in the record · 1926
Certificate of baptism signed by Rev. Volley V. K. Stokes
Artist not stated in the record · 1940
Funeral of Lord Nelson
Artist not stated in the record · 1806
Letter from Carl Murphy and Afro-American Newspapers
The Afro-American, American, founded 1892 · September 16, 1958
Cabinet card of Mary Jane Hale Welles in a funeral dress by Elizabeth Keckly
Artist not stated in the record · 1866
Funeral program for Fannie Lou Hamer
Artist not stated in the record · March 20, 1977
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. 1271237 matched · 40 examined · 23 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 2026-09-05 23:48 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.