Two 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. 10 shown for “"Stars and Stripes" wrapper” — 40 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-31 19:57 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
"Stars and Stripes" wrapper
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1918

Pair of stars and stripes slippers attributed to Elizabeth Keckly
Elizabeth Keckly, American, 1818 - 1907 · ca. 1865

Sled Decorated with Stars and Stripes
Unidentified · late 19th century

Study for cartoon "Welcome in the Year 1917"
Winsor McCay, American, 1869 - 1934 · 1916

Button
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

World War II Patriotic cover
Artist not stated in the record · March 6, 1944

World War II Patriotic cover
Artist not stated in the record · October 27, 1942

American flag pin worn by Eugene Harmond with Delta Airlines uniform
Delta Air Lines, American, founded 1925 · 1973-2016

Textile
Artist not stated in the record · 1880

Hafltone print portrait of an unidentified soldier
Unidentified · 1890s
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. 883 matched · 40 examined · 30 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.10 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-31 19:57 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.