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 “National Star Route Carriers' Association chest badge” — 40 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 07:54 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
National Star Route Carriers' Association chest badge
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1932-1950
City letter carrier chest badge, number 202
J. P. Cooke Company · late 1800s - early 1900s
City letter carrier chest badge, number 76
J. P. Cooke Company · early 1900s
City letter carrier chest badge, number 215
J. P. Cooke Company · early 1900s
City Letter Carrier Chest Badge, Number 415
J. P. Cooke Company · early 1900s
City letter carrier chest badge, number 109
Artist not stated in the record · early 1900s
City letter carrier cap badge, number 518
N. C. Walter and Sons · 1922
RMS clerk chest badge, number 5968
Artist not stated in the record · 1899
RMS clerk chest badge, number 6692
C. G. Braxmar · 1899
MVS employee chest badge, number 4852
N. C. Walter and Sons · c. 1920
MVS employee chest badge, number 7638
N. C. Walter and Sons · 1920s
RMS clerk chest badge, number 74996
Artist not stated in the record · 1949
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. The archive returned no records for this term.0 matched - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1103978 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 2026-09-01 07:54 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.