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. 24 shown for “Afternoon dress” — 64 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 07:48 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Dress
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1872

Young Lady in Afternoon Dress
William Page, born Albany, NY 1811-died Staten Island, NY 1885 · ca. 1870s

Afternoon dress
Artist not stated in the record · 1855–58

Young Lady in Afternoon Dress
William Page, born Albany, NY 1811-died Staten Island, NY 1885 · ca. 1870s

Afternoon dress
Artist not stated in the record · 1847–50

Summer Afternoon
Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910 · 1872

Afternoon dress
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1846

The Promenade
Constantin Guys, French, 1802 – 1892 · ca. 1858

Afternoon dress
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1845

Afternoon
Rodney Thomson, born San Francisco,CA 1878-died New York City 1941 · n.d.

Afternoon dress
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1814

A Summer Afternoon
Elis F. Miller, n.d. · 1882

Afternoon dress
Chezar & Pillman · ca. 1903

September Afternoon
George Inness, born Newburgh, NY 1825-died Bridge of Allan, Scotland 1894 · 1887

Afternoon dress
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1843

Late Afternoon
George M. Bruestle, born New York City 1871-died CT 1939 · ca. 1901

Afternoon dress
Artist not stated in the record · 1903–5

Up the River, Late Afternoon, October
Childe Hassam, born Dorchester, MA 1859-died East Hampton, NY 1935 · 1906

Afternoon dress
Artist not stated in the record · 1855–1903

Afternoon on Saco Bay, Coast of Maine
William Frederick De Haas, born Rotterdam, Netherlands 1830-died at sea near Fayal, Azores 1880 · 1874

Afternoon dress
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1875

Winter Afternoon at Olana, Hudson, New York
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · 1870–75

Afternoon dress
Artist not stated in the record · 1835–36

A Complete Group of Clouds (Afternoon), New York
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · August 1844
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. 203 matched · 24 examined · 11 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.12 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 22421 matched · 40 examined · 23 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 07:48 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.