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 “Underwood & Underwood, American, 1881 - 1940s” — 40 records examined, 18 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 01:49 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Colored Soldiers who covered themselves with glory in France, returning to US
Artist not stated in the record · 1914-1918
Cotton is King - Plantation Scene, Georgia
Artist not stated in the record · 1895
Booker T. Washington, President of the Negro Industrial School, Tuskegee, Alabama
Strohmeyer & Wyman, American, unknown-1901 · 1899
14192-15th. Reg. Colored troops giving retreat at Camp Upton, N.Y.
Underwood & Underwood, American, 1881 - 1940s · 1917-1919
Troop A, Ninth U.S. Cavalry -- Famous Indian Fighters
Artist not stated in the record · 1898
14198-The original Buffaloes, 367 Infantry Colored Troops Rifle Practice, Camp Upton, N.Y.
Underwood & Underwood, American, 1881 - 1940s · 1917-1919
13962 A colored brigade building trenches at Camp Devens, Mass.
Underwood & Underwood, American, 1881 - 1940s · 1917-1919
14208-360th Colored Regiment Arriving in New York aboard S.S. Aquitania
Underwood & Underwood, American, 1881 - 1940s · 1914-1918
14339-Brave colored officers and men off for France, eager for their share of the struggle
Underwood & Underwood, American, 1881 - 1940s · 1914-1916
P-V2091 Cars Loaded with Cotton Bales on Levee, Near Cotton Growing District, Texas
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1900
Girls of the Booker Washington School, Tuskegee, Ala. -- Mrs. McKinley in near carriage.
Artist not stated in the record · 1899
Uncle Tom's Cabin - The Old Folks at Home, Kentucky, U.S.A.
Artist not stated in the record · 1895
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. 478263 matched · 40 examined · 18 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 2026-09-06 01:49 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.