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 “Pinback Button, “Vote the Rascals Out”” — 41 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 21:55 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Pinback Button, “Vote the Rascals Out”
Artist not stated in the record · Late 20th century
Pinback button reading “Black Folk Must Vote”
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1965
Pinback button for promoting voting registration
Artist not stated in the record · 1970s
Pinback button advocating for a Civilian Review Board
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1970
Pinback button for SNCC's One Man One Vote campaign
Unidentified · ca. 1965
Pinback Button, "Can't Wait To Punch 8"
Artist not stated in the record · 1982
Pinback Button, "We '8" Um Up"
Artist not stated in the record · 1983
Pinback button reading "Students for Mary Ellen"
Artist not stated in the record · 2019
Pinback button advocating against drugs
Artist not stated in the record · 1950-2000
Pinback Button, “DC Make a Date for ‘88”
Artist not stated in the record · 1988
Pinback button for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Artist not stated in the record · 1960-1979
Pinback button with a black panther on it, from the MMM 20th Anniversary
Artist not stated in the record · 2015
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 · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.0 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1221308 matched · 40 examined · 24 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 2026-09-04 21:55 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.