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 “Bodice” — 64 records examined, 23 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 20:35 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Bodice
Artist not stated in the record · 1837–40

Wedding dress with beaded lace bodice
Bill Washington, American · 1980s

Bodice
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Bodice
Artist not stated in the record · 1830–40

Bodice
Artist not stated in the record · 1740s

Cream lace wedding gown with corded floral motifs
Annie Hauer, American · 1895

Bodice
Artist not stated in the record · 1863–67

Black textured wool bodice and skirt with lace
Unidentified · 1890s

Bodice
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Brown and black striped silk moiré bodice and skirt
Louvinia Price, American, 1857 - 1935 · 1860-1874

Bodice
Artist not stated in the record · 1840–59

Silk organza unfinished dress with blue embroidery
Unidentified · ca. 1966

Bodice
Artist not stated in the record · 1840–49

Bodice
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1835

Bodice
Artist not stated in the record · 1820–25

Bodice fragment
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1775

Bodice
Artist not stated in the record · 1775–85

Bodice panel
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Bodice
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Purple bodice with lace and matching skirt
Unidentified · ca.1895

Bodice
Artist not stated in the record · 1860s

Dress designed by Ann Lowe
Ann Lowe, American, 1898 - 1981 · 1950

Bodice
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1815

Bodice
Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century
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. 702 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 493 matched · 40 examined · 21 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 2026-08-26 20:35 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.