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 reading "Save the Community Book Store"” — 40 records examined, 21 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 05:05 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 reading "Save the Community Book Store"
Artist not stated in the record · 1950-2000
Pinback button reading "Win With Wingate"
Artist not stated in the record · 1950-1990
Pinback button reading "Blacks for McGovern"
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1972
Pinback button reading Teach the Children the Truth
Artist not stated in the record · 20th century
Pinback button reading "Students for Mary Ellen"
Artist not stated in the record · 2019
Pinback button reading “Black Folk Must Vote”
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1965
Pinback button which reads "Respect and Protect the Black Woman"
Artist not stated in the record · mid-20th century
Pinback button which reads "Malcolm X Speaks For Me"
Artist not stated in the record · 1960-1970
Pinback button that reads "Be Black Baby"
Artist not stated in the record · late 20th century
Pinback button stating "Black Lives Matter Everyday", from MMM 20th Anniversary
Artist not stated in the record · 2015
Pinback button with "Negotiation Now" slogan
Artist not stated in the record · 1950-2000
Pinback button for N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense Fund anti-lynching campaign
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, American, founded 1909 · 1940s
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. 65881 matched · 40 examined · 21 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 05:05 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.