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 for Donald M. Payne's U.S. Congress campaign” — 40 records examined, 22 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 21:46 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 for Donald M. Payne's U.S. Congress campaign
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1989
Pinback Button, "We '8" Um Up"
Artist not stated in the record · 1983
Pinback Button, "Can't Wait To Punch 8"
Artist not stated in the record · 1982
Pinback Button, "The Platform"
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1976
Pinback Button, "Humphrey Muskie"
Artist not stated in the record · 1968
Pinback Button, "Free D.C."
Artist not stated in the record · Late 20th century
Pinback button for Herman B. Ferfuson's campaign for Senate
Artist not stated in the record · 1968
Pinback Button, "President Reagan"
Artist not stated in the record · Between 1980 and 1984
Pinback Button, “Sounds Like Bull Shit to Me”
Artist not stated in the record · Late 20th century
Pinback Button, “Washington’s No 1 Crew,”
Artist not stated in the record · Late 20th century
Pinback button for Frank Barbaro's Mayoral campaign
Artist not stated in the record · 1981
Pinback Button, “DC Make a Date for ‘88”
Artist not stated in the record · 1988
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. 1730853 matched · 40 examined · 22 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 21:46 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.