OpenGlyph — Catalogue of the American Public DomainJurisdiction: United StatesRev. 2026.08
Images / art

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 “Delegate badge from NFPOC convention” — 40 records examined, 23 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-08 21:27 UTC · fetched live for this request

Object
Public domainThe Met’s isPublicDomain field is true for this object.
CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian’s metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Not shownAnything failing its archive’s rights field is dropped server-side and never appears here.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Delegate badge from NFPOC convention

Delegate badge from NFPOC convention

Artist not stated in the record · September 5-9, 1927

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Delegate badge for NFPOC&M convention

Delegate badge for NFPOC&M convention

Artist not stated in the record · September 7-9, 1935

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
National Association of Letter Carriers Delegate Convention Badge

National Association of Letter Carriers Delegate Convention Badge

Artist not stated in the record · 1934

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Convention Badge

Convention Badge

Artist not stated in the record · 1938

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
National Association of Colored Women's Convention Delegate's badge, by National Association of Colored Women's Clubs, American, founded 1896

National Association of Colored Women's Convention Delegate's badge

National Association of Colored Women's Clubs, American, founded 1896 · ca. 1914

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
57th Biennial Convention of National Association of Letter Carriers badge

57th Biennial Convention of National Association of Letter Carriers badge

Artist not stated in the record · August 19, 1990 - August 24, 1990

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
National Association of Letter Carriers Delegate Convention Badge

National Association of Letter Carriers Delegate Convention Badge

Artist not stated in the record · 1934

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
NALC convention delegate badge

NALC convention delegate badge

Artist not stated in the record · September 4-9, 1911

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
National Association of Letter Carriers Convention Badge

National Association of Letter Carriers Convention Badge

Artist not stated in the record · 1899

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Convention Badge

Convention Badge

Artist not stated in the record · 1928

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
National League of Women Voters Delegate Badge, 1922

National League of Women Voters Delegate Badge, 1922

Artist not stated in the record · 1922-04-20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
1948 Delegate Miami, FL NALC Annual Convention badge

1948 Delegate Miami, FL NALC Annual Convention badge

Artist not stated in the record · October 11-16, 1948

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
What was queried

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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 417853 matched · 40 examined · 23 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 2026-09-08 21:27 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.