Two 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. 13 shown for “Rural letter carrier’s cash and stamp box” — 41 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 07:54 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
The Garden of the Tuileries on a Spring Morning
Camille Pissarro · 1899

Rural Letter Carrier's cash and stamp box
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1902-1930

Rural letter carrier’s cash and stamp box
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1902-1930

Rural letter carrier's cash and stamp box
Charles Boyer Company · c. 1902-1930

Photograph of postcard of rural carrier's Christmas
Artist not stated in the record · 1915

Rural Free Delivery Mail sled
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1900-1920s

Rural Free Delivery wagon model
Terre Haute Carriage & Buggy Company · c. 1896- c. 1905

Photograph of rural carrier in uniform
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1925

Photograph of Rural Free Delivery wagon with horse in Osseo, Minnesota
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1905

Photograph of rural carrier and sleigh
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1915

Photograph of female rural carrier in snow
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1910

RFD Letter Carrier Tiara-style Cap Badge with Leather Strap
Heeren Brothers and Company · Date of issue: early 1900s

Photograph of rural carrier with horse and wagon
Artist not stated in the record · 1912
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 · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.1 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1478567 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 07:54 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.