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. 24 shown for “Name plate for Army uniform worn by General Colin L. Powell” — 57 records examined, 14 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 06:36 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456)
Hans Memling · ca. 1470

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

The Annunciation
Petrus Christus · ca. 1445

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

General Étienne-Maurice Gérard (1773–1852)
Jacques Louis David · 1816

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

A Knight of the d'Aluye Family
Artist not stated in the record · after 1248–by 1267

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

Miniature female effigy
Inca artist(s) · 1400–1535 CE

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

Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895)
Auguste Renoir · 1878

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

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

Military uniform belt worn by General Colin L. Powell
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1958-1993

Miniature male effigy
Inca artist(s) · 1400–1535 CE

"U.S." Army insignia pin worn by General Colin L. Powell
Artist not stated in the record · 1958-1993

Young Man Holding a Book
Master of the View of Saint Gudula · ca. 1480

"U.S." Army insignia pin worn by General Colin L. Powell
Artist not stated in the record · 1958-1993

Miniature camelid effigy
Inca artist(s) · 1400–1535 CE

"U.S." Army insignia pin worn by General Colin L. Powell
Artist not stated in the record · 1958-1993

Virgin and Child in an Apse
Robert Campin

Pin for 48th Infantry Dragoons worn by General Colin L. Powell
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1958-1960

Tupu
Artist not stated in the record · Before 17th century

Pin for 48th Infantry Dragoons worn by General Colin L. Powell
Artist not stated in the record · 1958-1993
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. 17 matched · 17 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.12 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 7462870 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 2026-09-06 06:36 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.