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 “Trade card for the "Great Negro Mart" in Memphis, Tennessee” — 56 records examined, 43 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 11:35 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Capitol of Tennessee in Nashville, from the General Government and State Capitol Buildings series (N14) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands
Allen & Ginter · 1889
Trade card for the "Great Negro Mart" in Memphis, Tennessee
Artist not stated in the record · 1859-1860
Tennessee, from Flags of the States and Territories (N11) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands
Allen & Ginter · 1888
Placard stating "I AM A MAN" carried by Arthur J. Schmidt in 1968 Memphis March
Artist not stated in the record · 1968
Tennessee, from Flags of the States and Territories (N11) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands
Allen & Ginter · 1888
Placard stating "HONOR KING: END RACISM" carried in 1968 Memphis March
Artist not stated in the record · 1968
Tennessee, from Flags of the States and Territories (N11) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands
Allen & Ginter · 1888
Cabinet card of an unidentified man wearing an overcoat and holding a hat
Artist not stated in the record · 1880-1895
A.S. Colyar, The Nashville Daily American, from the American Editors series (N35) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes
Allen & Ginter · 1887
Placard from memorial march reading "HONOR KING: END RACISM!"
Artist not stated in the record · 1968
Photograph of an unidentified man
Artist not stated in the record · 1910s
Photograph of a girl named Gladys in cap and gown
Artist not stated in the record · 1910s
Photograph of Preston Bond
Artist not stated in the record · 1910s
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. 16 matched · 16 examined · 11 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. 7483543 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 2026-09-01 11:35 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.