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 “Winold Reiss, 16 Sep 1886 - 29 Aug 1953” — 40 records examined, 14 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 18:43 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 New Negro
Winold Reiss, 16 Sep 1886 - 29 Aug 1953 · 1925
Paul Robeson
Winold Reiss, 16 Sep 1886 - 29 Aug 1953 · 1924
Elise J. McDougald
Winold Reiss, 16 Sep 1886 - 29 Aug 1953 · 1924
Roland Hayes
Winold Reiss, 16 Sep 1886 - 29 Aug 1953 · 1925
Robert Russa Moton
Winold Reiss, 16 Sep 1886 - 29 Aug 1953 · 1925
Elise J. McDougald
Winold Reiss, 16 Sep 1886 - 29 Aug 1953 · 1925
Countee Cullen
Winold Reiss, 16 Sep 1886 - 29 Aug 1953 · 1925
Alain Locke
Winold Reiss, 16 Sep 1886 - 29 Aug 1953 · 1925
Roland Hayes
Winold Reiss, 16 Sep 1886 - 29 Aug 1953 · 1924
Mary McLeod Bethune
Winold Reiss, 16 Sep 1886 - 29 Aug 1953 · 1925
Jean Toomer
Winold Reiss, 16 Sep 1886 - 29 Aug 1953 · 1925
Winold Reiss
Unidentified Artist · 1919
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. 2254201 matched · 40 examined · 14 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 18:43 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.