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. 10 shown for “Business card of Mme. Dovie Wright, hair culturist” — 40 records examined, 30 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 05:49 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Business card of Mme. Dovie Wright, hair culturist
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1917

Business card of Jordan's Beauty Parlor
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1917

Photographic postcard of Dovie Wright Jordan
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1917

Diploma from The Lelia College
Artist not stated in the record · 1916

Salon Shop Sign
American Art Works · 1920-1970

Business card case
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1917
Domingo Ghirardelli
Gustavo Luzzati, 1 Nov 1855 - 1930 · c. 1899

Mask
Artist not stated in the record · 1615-1868

Cabinet card of a man holding a hat
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1885
John Roy Lynch
Charles Milton Bell, 3 Apr 1848 - 12 May 1893 · c. 1882
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. 2897472 matched · 40 examined · 30 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.10 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 05:49 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.