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 “Rural letter carrier's handmade sorting bag” — 40 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 07:51 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Rural letter carrier's handmade sorting bag
Artist not stated in the record · After 1896
Leather letter carrier satchel
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1966
Rural Free Delivery segregated saddlebag
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1896
Photograph of rural carrier in uniform
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1925
Rural letter carrier's cash and stamp box
Charles Boyer Company · c. 1902-1930
Photograph of female rural carrier in snow
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1910
Photograph of rural carrier and sleigh
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1915
Rural letter carrier's carriage heater
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1917
Photograph of rural carrier with horse and wagon
Artist not stated in the record · 1912
Rural Free Delivery letter carrier cap badge
Artist not stated in the record · early 1900s
RFD Letter Carrier Tiara-style Cap Badge with Leather Strap
Heeren Brothers and Company · Date of issue: early 1900s
Photograph of postcard of rural carrier's Christmas
Artist not stated in the record · 1915
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. 56485 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 07:51 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.