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. 13 shown for “Badge for Joint Chiefs of Staff worn by General Colin L. Powell” — 42 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 05:14 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 Annunciation
Petrus Christus · ca. 1445
Badge for Joint Chiefs of Staff worn by General Colin L. Powell
Artist not stated in the record · 1989-1993
Philip IV (1605–1665), King of Spain
Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) · probably 1624
Plaque for Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Colin L. Powell
United States Armed Forces, American, founded 1775 · ca. 1989-1993
Seal of the United States Joint Chiefs of Staff owned by Gen. Colin Powell
United States Department of Defense · 1989-1993
Streamer for Joint Meritorious Unit Award owned by Gen. Colin Powell
United States Armed Forces, American, founded 1775 · ca. 1989-1993
Photograph of Gen. Colin Powell with President Clinton and Vice Pres. Al Gore
Artist not stated in the record · September 30, 1993
Streamer for U.S. Marine Corps Expeditionary owned by Gen. Colin Powell
United States Marine Corps, American, founded 1775 · ca. 1989-1993
Burial flag of Colin L. Powell
United States Armed Forces, American, founded 1775 · November 5, 2021
US Army green service uniform pants worn by General Colin L. Powell
Artist not stated in the record · 1989-1993
Streamer for Navy Unit Commendation owned by Gen. Colin Powell
United States Navy, American, founded 1775 · ca. 1989-1993
Streamer for Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation owned by Gen. Colin Powell
United States Navy, American, founded 1775 · ca. 1989-1993
Streamer for Armed Forces Expeditions owned by Gen. Colin Powell
United States Armed Forces, American, founded 1775 · 1989-1990
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. 2 matched · 2 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.2 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 3892668 matched · 40 examined · 12 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 05:14 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.