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. 12 shown for “Unveiling of Amelia Earhart postage stamp news clipping” — 40 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-10 04:14 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Unveiling of Amelia Earhart postage stamp news clipping
Artist not stated in the record · May 10, 1963

Unveiling of Amelia Earhart postage stamp newspaper clipping
Artist not stated in the record · March 22, 1963

'Plaque to Amelia Earhart' and 'Urge Earhart Commemorative' news clippings
Artist not stated in the record · 1952-1962

'Tributes are Paid to Amelia Earhart' news clipping
Artist not stated in the record · November 22, 1937

News clippings surrounding Amelia Earhart's transatlantic flight to Europe
Artist not stated in the record · May 1932

'Mrs. Putnam Flies Atlantic to Ireland in Record Time' news clipping
Artist not stated in the record · May 21, 1932

'Miss Earhart Flies Alone for Paris on "Lindbergh Day"' news clipping
Artist not stated in the record · May 20, 1932

'Earhart Air Clue is Studied in U.S.' news clipping
Artist not stated in the record · July 3, 1960

'Earhart Mystery Opened Anew' and 'Irate Woman' news clippings
Artist not stated in the record · 1960s

8c Amelia Earhart plate proof
Bureau of Engraving and Printing · June 27, 1963

8c Amelia Earhart plate proof
Bureau of Engraving and Printing · 1963

Invitation to ceremony honoring Amelia Earhart Putnam
Artist not stated in the record · June 20, 1932
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. 3057736 matched · 40 examined · 5 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 2026-09-10 04:14 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.