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. 12 shown for “Badge for NAPUS convention” — 44 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-08 19:31 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Rank Badge with Mandarin Duck
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Badge for NAPUS convention
Artist not stated in the record · September 21-23, 1938
Rank Badge with Silver Pheasant
Artist not stated in the record · 18th–early 19th century

Convention Badge
Artist not stated in the record · 1902

Ignacio Garcini y Queralt (1752–1825), Brigadier of Engineers
Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · 1804

Temporary pass for the Miami Beach Convention Center
Unidentified · 1950-1983

Paris
Antico (Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi) · ca. 1518–1524

Convention Badge
Artist not stated in the record · 1938

Press Badge Worn By Ethel L. Payne
Artist not stated in the record · 1972

Joint Convention of Postal Carriers and Clerks Convention Badge
Artist not stated in the record · 1916

Post Office Clerks convention badge from Joint Convention of Letter Carriers
Artist not stated in the record · 1936

Convention badge from Joint Convention of Minnesota postal employees
Artist not stated in the record · 1937
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. 4 matched · 4 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.4 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 434738 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-08 19:31 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.