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 “Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly” — 41 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 08:40 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, Vol. I
Stowe, Harriet Beecher · 1852
Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly
Artist not stated in the record · 1852
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Alanson Fisher, 1807 - 1884 · 1853
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870
Uncle Tom’s Cabin Broadside
Seer, A. S.
Uncle Tom's Cabin - The Old Folks at Home, Kentucky, U.S.A.
Artist not stated in the record · 1895
Plate with Uncle Tom's Cabin illustration
Unidentified · after 1852
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Artist not stated in the record · 1900
Uncle Tom's Cabin illustrated anti-slavery cover
Artist not stated in the record · March 28, 1853
Samuel Green Sentenced to the Penitentiary for Ten Years for Having a Copy of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" in His House
Unidentified Artist · 1872
Uncle Remus at the Door of His Cabin
Arthur Burdett Frost, American, 1851–1928 · ca. 1895
The Slave Sale
unknown · ca 1855
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 · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.0 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1308108 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 2026-09-03 08:40 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.