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. 13 shown for “Letter carrier pillbox hat” — 41 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 01:47 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Girl in a Straw Bonnet
Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse · ca. 1868–70
Letter carrier pillbox hat
Artist not stated in the record · 1969-1971
Letter carrier uniform beret
Artist not stated in the record · 1966
Black pillbox with veil and bow
Unidentified · 1960s-1980s
Yellow velveteen pillbox hat
Mr. John, American, founded 1948 · 1940s
Black polypropylene straw pillbox hat
Unidentified · 1980s-1990s
Pink floral brocade pillbox hat
Unidentified · 1960s
Black velvet pillbox with hat pin
Unidentified · 1980s
Black velveteen pillbox hat with net
Unidentified · 1960s
Twill pillbox with self fabric bow
Unidentified · ca. 1980
White braided pillbox hat
Unidentified · 1960s
Pink flower pillbox hat
Unidentified · 1960s
Yellow pillbox hat with bow
Gibbe Hat · 1960s
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. 1 matched · 1 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.1 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 28189 matched · 40 examined · 5 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 01:47 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.