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. 11 shown for “Jacket from an S1W uniform” — 40 records examined, 14 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 01:05 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 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.
Jacket from an S1W uniform
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1992
Belt from an S1W uniform
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1992

Pair of boots from an S1W uniform
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1992

Beret from an S1W uniform
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1992

Beret from an S1W uniform
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1992

Letter carrier uniform jacket
Penn Garment Co. · 1906-1956

Letter carrier uniform jacket
Thorton Tailor · c. 1956-1965

US Navy dress uniform jacket worn by Adm. Michelle Howard as commander
Artist not stated in the record · 1999

Jacket from Fruit of Islam uniform
Artist not stated in the record · 1950-1959

Cliff Clavin's trousers
Artist not stated in the record · 1982-1987

US Coast Guard Dinner Dress Blue Jacket worn by Commander Merle Smith Jr.
Artist not stated in the record · 1988
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. 466416 matched · 40 examined · 14 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 01:05 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.