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. 24 shown for “Chest Organ” — 64 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 16:35 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Chest Organ
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700

Christmas assistant chest badge, number 561
Artist not stated in the record · 1959

Reed Organ (Physharmonica)
Alexander-François Debain · ca. 1860

RMS clerk chest badge, number 17542
American Railway Supply Company · 1898

Canopic Chest of Khonsu
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE

Base Post Office chest badge, number 250
Artist not stated in the record · 1950s

Reed Organ (Physharmonika)
Alexander-François Debain · early 19th century

Sea post clerk chest badge, number 81
Artist not stated in the record · 1891-1940

Royal portrait of Akessa(?)
Boyo artist · Late 18th–19th century

RMS clerk chest badge, number 5968
Artist not stated in the record · 1899

Canopic box of Hatnefer
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1491–1473 BCE

City letter carrier chest badge, number 202
J. P. Cooke Company · late 1800s - early 1900s

Chamber Organ
Unknown · 18th century

City letter carrier chest badge, number 76
J. P. Cooke Company · early 1900s

Chamber Organ
Thomas Chapman · 1779

City letter carrier chest badge, number 215
J. P. Cooke Company · early 1900s

Chamber Organ
William Crowell · 1852

City Letter Carrier Chest Badge, Number 415
J. P. Cooke Company · early 1900s

Tupu (pin)
Inca artist(s) · 1400–1535 CE

RMS clerk chest badge, number 6692
C. G. Braxmar · 1899

Claviorganum
Lorenz Hauslaib · 1598

Roundsman chest badge
Artist not stated in the record · early 1880s

Chamber Organ
George Clisbee · ca. 1845–60

RMS clerk chest badge, number 74996
Artist not stated in the record · 1949
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. 78 matched · 24 examined · 2 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.12 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 16386 matched · 40 examined · 15 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 2026-09-03 16:35 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.