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 “Postal contractor's uniform cap” — 40 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 05:53 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Postal contractor's uniform cap
Artist not stated in the record · c. 2010
Uniform cap and cap badge
Artist not stated in the record · 1893-1925
Letter carrier uniform cap
Artist not stated in the record · c.1963-1970
Letter carrier pillbox hat
Artist not stated in the record · 1969-1971
Uniform hat for cold weather
Artist not stated in the record · 20th century
City letter carrier cap badge, number 1822
Artist not stated in the record · 1880s
Letter carrier uniform cap
Artist not stated in the record · c.1893-1922
Uniform hat for cold weather
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1960
National Star Route Carriers' Association chest badge
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1932-1950
Photograph of post card with letter carriers
Artist not stated in the record · 1890-1910
Photograph of letter carriers in Concord, New Hampshire
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1890
Photographic postcard of WWI soldier with French and American flags
Unidentified · 1917-1918
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. 28075 matched · 40 examined · 25 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 05:53 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.