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. 14 shown for “Combat Infantryman Badge worn by General Colin L. Powell” — 42 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 05:05 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
The Annunciation
Petrus Christus · ca. 1445

Combat Infantryman Badge worn by General Colin L. Powell
Artist not stated in the record · 1960-1993

Philip IV (1605–1665), King of Spain
Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) · probably 1624

Combat Infantryman Badge worn by General Colin L. Powell
Artist not stated in the record · 1960-1993

Badge for Army Air Assault worn by General Colin L. Powell
Artist not stated in the record · 1976-1993

Badge for Joint Chiefs of Staff worn by General Colin L. Powell
Artist not stated in the record · 1989-1993

Battle Dress Uniform jacket worn by General Colin L. Powell
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1982-1993

Dress Tab for Army Ranger worn by General Colin L. Powell
Artist not stated in the record · 1958-1993

Army dress uniform gloves worn by General Colin L. Powell
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1989-1993

US Army subdued star insignia worn by General Colin L. Powell
Artist not stated in the record · 1979-1993

Name plate for Army uniform worn by General Colin L. Powell
Artist not stated in the record · 1958-1993

Name plate for Army uniform worn by General Colin L. Powell
Artist not stated in the record · 1958-1993

Insignia pins for Army General Staff worn by General Colin L. Powell
Artist not stated in the record · 1979-1993

US Army star insignia pin worn by General Colin L. Powell
Artist not stated in the record · 1979-1993
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. 1803431 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 05:05 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.