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 “Letter carrier uniform cap” — 40 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-31 23:44 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.
Uniform hat for cold weather
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1960
Letter carrier uniform cap
Artist not stated in the record · c.1893-1922
Letter carrier uniform cap
Artist not stated in the record · c.1963-1970
Mrs. ZIP placard
Artist not stated in the record · After 1963
Letter carrier band uniform cap
Artist not stated in the record · mid 20th-late 20th Century
Letter carrier band uniform cap
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1958
Letter carrier pillbox hat
Artist not stated in the record · 1969-1971
City letter carrier cap badge, number 1822
Artist not stated in the record · 1880s
Photograph of post card with letter carriers
Artist not stated in the record · 1890-1910
Photograph of letter carriers in Concord, New Hampshire
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1890
Letter carrier uniform jacket
Penn Garment Co. · 1906-1956
Letter carrier uniform jacket
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1958
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. 34443 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 2026-08-31 23:44 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.