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. 12 shown for “City letter carrier cap badge” — 40 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 04:05 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
City letter carrier cap badge, number 3
Artist not stated in the record · early 1900s
City letter carrier cap badge, number 15
N. C. Walter and Sons · 1968
City letter carrier cap badge, number 1
Artist not stated in the record · 1955
City letter carrier cap badge, number 2
Artist not stated in the record · 1955
City letter carrier cap badge
Artist not stated in the record · 1877-1922
City letter carrier cap badge, number 224
Artist not stated in the record · 1887
City letter carrier cap badge, number 6
N. C. Walter and Sons · 1968
City letter carrier cap badge, number 1504
Artist not stated in the record · 1955
City letter carrier cap badge, number 81
Artist not stated in the record · 1887
City letter carrier cap badge, number 139
Artist not stated in the record · 1887
City letter carrier cap badge, number 1822
Artist not stated in the record · 1880s
City letter carrier cap badge, number 1
Artist not stated in the record · 1887
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. 332680 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-09-01 04:05 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.