Parkland Archives
https://history.parklandarchives.com/api/almanac-recordsStructured historical data from verified primary sources — 1900 Sears catalog prices, World Almanac statistics, and more. Queryable by AI agents via x402 micropayments on Base.
Paid verification
How it worksNo sponsored paid call yet.
Pay this endpoint once from your own wallet (Base USDC, up to $1.00) and we call it and record what came back. Your wallet pays the listed recipient directly; Agent Tools never holds funds. Sponsored checks prove delivery; they do not count as demand.
Quality grade
How grading works- ✓ Answers a real HTTP 402 challenge
- ✓ Publishes a /.well-known/x402 descriptor
- ✓ Payment address on record
- ✓ Settlement network declared
- ✓ Price declared
x402 readiness
Readiness is how fully this listing follows its protocol and how it behaved in our probes over 30 days. It is shown for reference and does not move it in search. Search order and leaderboards use the separate quality grade (here B, 64.8/100), which weighs availability, payability and on-chain demand. How the two differ
| Valid payment requirements | 10/10 | Payment requirements carry a payee, a mainnet network and a price. |
| Live 402 challenge | 25/25 | Paid endpoint answers with an HTTP 402 challenge (286 ms). |
| x402 version | n/a | x402 version not observed yet. |
| Signed descriptor | n/a | No x402 standard defines a signed descriptor. |
| Uptime (30 days) | 15/15 | 32/32 probes succeeded over 30 days (100%). |
| Resource declaration | 10/10 | Declares 10 paid resource(s). |
| Verified identity | 5/10 | Publisher descriptor (/.well-known/x402 or OpenAPI) on record; claim this listing to verify domain control. |
| Freshness + modern flags | 5/5 | seen in a source within 7 days; declares x402. |
| Security declaration | n/a | Payment is the access control for an x402 resource. |
Compared with peers
Against 10,082 reachable x402 APIs in our daily snapshot (2026-11-12 06:46 UTC). Display only; it does not change search order.
- Readiness
- Higher than 94% of peers
- This listing 93 · peer median 78
- Latency
- Faster than 37% of peers
- This listing 286 ms · peer median 205 ms
Where it loses the most points, and how to win them back
- Verified identity −5
— Claim the listing and prove control of its domain.
Now: Publisher descriptor (/.well-known/x402 or OpenAPI) on record; claim this listing to verify domain control.
Paid endpoints
10 resource(s) advertised by this origin. Each price below is that resource's own x402 price; the headline price is the range across them.
https://history.parklandarchives.com/api/catalog-prices
Search the 1900 Sears, Roebuck & Co. catalog by keyword, category, or item. Returns product name, price in 1900 USD, materials, item number, and source page link.
https://history.parklandarchives.com/api/catalog-prices/item
Look up one specific Sears catalog item by its catalog number. Cheapest endpoint -- for when the agent already knows exactly what it wants.
https://history.parklandarchives.com/api/catalog-prices/summary
Computed price stats across a category: average, min, and max in 1900 USD. For queries like 'what did bicycles cost on average?'
https://history.parklandarchives.com/api/catalog-prices/modern-value
Converts a 1900 Sears price to today's dollars using the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Consumer Price Index (1800-present). The only endpoint backed by U.S. government CPI data.
https://history.parklandarchives.com/api/almanac-records
Search the 1900 World Almanac for named statistics: election results, population figures, postal rates, trade figures, military numbers, and more.
https://history.parklandarchives.com/api/bulk/almanac
Full Almanac dataset in one purchase -- thousands of verified records in a single JSON response.
https://history.parklandarchives.com/api/bulk/catalog
Full Sears catalog dataset in one purchase -- all verified price records in a single JSON response.
https://history.parklandarchives.com/.well-known/x402
Machine-readable endpoint catalog for AI agents and directory crawlers. Lists all paid and free endpoints with prices and descriptions.
https://history.parklandarchives.com/api/catalog-prices/sample
Free sample -- returns up to 5 catalog records without payment. Used for public demos and agent toolchain discovery.
https://history.parklandarchives.com/.well-known/x402-stats
Conversion funnel stats for every endpoint: total requests, 402 challenges, and settled payments since last server restart.
How to call
curl -sS -i -X GET https://history.parklandarchives.com/api/almanac-records # expect HTTP 402 Payment Required (about $0.01/call)
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