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 “Trunk used by Tuskegee Airman 2d Lt. James McCullin” — 41 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 22:57 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 Annunciation
Joos van Cleve · ca. 1525
Trunk used by Tuskegee Airman 2d Lt. James McCullin
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1940
Tuskegee Airman flight jacket worn by Lt. Col. Woodrow W. Crockett
Artist not stated in the record · 1942
Keep Us Flying!
Betsy Graves Reyneau, American, 1888 - 1964 · 1943
U.S. Army Air Force pilot badge owned by Lt. Louise Lomax
Artist not stated in the record · 1943-1946
Pair of leather gloves owned by Tuskegee Airman Woodrow Crockett
Artist not stated in the record · 1940-1945
First Lieutenant bar insignia worn by Lt. Louise Lomax
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1946
Pin with U.S. insignia worn by Lt. Louise Lomax as part of ANC uniform
Artist not stated in the record · 1943-1953
Button from Army Nurse Corps uniform worn by Lt. Louise Lomax
Artist not stated in the record · 1943-1953
Pin with Army Nurse Corps insignia worn by Lt. Louise Lomax
Artist not stated in the record · 1943-1953
Pin with Army Nurse Corps insignia worn by Lt. Louise Lomax
Artist not stated in the record · 1943
First Lieutenant bar insignia worn by Lt. Louise Lomax
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1946
First Lieutenant bar insignia worn by Lt. Louise Lomax
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1946
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. 827699 matched · 40 examined · 27 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 2026-09-04 22:57 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.