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. 11 shown for ““Shepherd” looking up dressed in light green jacket, white furry vest, blue pants, leather bag” — 41 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 05:21 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
“Shepherd” looking up dressed in light green jacket, white furry vest, blue pants, leather bag
Artist not stated in the record · second half 18th–mid-19th century

Pilot flight suit and gear owned by Charles F. Bolden
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2000

Slave Trade (Execrable Human Traffick, or The Affectionate Slaves)
George Morland, English, 1763 - 1804 · ca. 1788

Fruit of Islam uniform
Fruit of Islam, American, founded 1933 · ca. 1960

17th Century Gentleman Smoking Pipe
Reed & Barton, American, 1824–2015 · ca. 1900

Lobby card for The Duke Is Tops
Artist not stated in the record · 1938

Learning is Wealth: Wilson, Charley, Rebecca & Rosa, Slaves from New Orleans
Charles Paxson, American · 1864

Costume vest by Diana Ross as Billie Holiday in Lady Sings the Blues
Bob Mackie, American, born 1940 · 1972

1968 Olympic warm-up suit pants worn by Tommie Smith
Artist not stated in the record · 1968

Photograph of a seven year-old named Thomas
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th-early 20th century

Uniform pants owned by Pullman Porter Robert Thomas
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1920
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. 7469338 matched · 40 examined · 19 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 2026-09-03 05:21 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.