OpenGlyph — Catalogue of the American Public DomainJurisdiction: United StatesRev. 2026.08
Images / art

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

Object
Public domainThe Met’s isPublicDomain field is true for this object.
CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian’s metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Not shownAnything failing its archive’s rights field is dropped server-side and never appears here.
Bodice

Bodice

Artist not stated in the record · 1837–40

Public domainThe Met
Wedding dress with beaded lace bodice, by Bill Washington, American

Wedding dress with beaded lace bodice

Bill Washington, American · 1980s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bodice

Bodice

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Bodice

Bodice

Artist not stated in the record · 1830–40

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bodice

Bodice

Artist not stated in the record · 1740s

Public domainThe Met
Cream lace wedding gown with corded floral motifs, by Annie Hauer, American

Cream lace wedding gown with corded floral motifs

Annie Hauer, American · 1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bodice

Bodice

Artist not stated in the record · 1863–67

Public domainThe Met
Black textured wool bodice and skirt with lace, by Unidentified

Black textured wool bodice and skirt with lace

Unidentified · 1890s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bodice

Bodice

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Brown and black striped silk moiré bodice and skirt, by Louvinia Price, American, 1857 - 1935

Brown and black striped silk moiré bodice and skirt

Louvinia Price, American, 1857 - 1935 · 1860-1874

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bodice

Bodice

Artist not stated in the record · 1840–59

Public domainThe Met
Silk organza unfinished dress with blue embroidery, by Unidentified

Silk organza unfinished dress with blue embroidery

Unidentified · ca. 1966

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bodice

Bodice

Artist not stated in the record · 1840–49

Public domainThe Met
Bodice

Bodice

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1835

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bodice

Bodice

Artist not stated in the record · 1820–25

Public domainThe Met
Bodice fragment

Bodice fragment

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bodice

Bodice

Artist not stated in the record · 1775–85

Public domainThe Met
Bodice panel

Bodice panel

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bodice

Bodice

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Purple bodice with lace and matching skirt, by Unidentified

Purple bodice with lace and matching skirt

Unidentified · ca.1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bodice

Bodice

Artist not stated in the record · 1860s

Public domainThe Met
Dress designed by Ann Lowe, by Ann Lowe, American, 1898 - 1981

Dress designed by Ann Lowe

Ann Lowe, American, 1898 - 1981 · 1950

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bodice

Bodice

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1815

Public domainThe Met
Bodice

Bodice

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
What was queried

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.