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 “Costume Bell” — 64 records examined, 25 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 07:12 UTC · served from cache, not re-queried for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Costume Bell
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Edward Bell
Unidentified Artist · c. 1860

Helmet (Sallet)
Artist not stated in the record · late 15th–early 16th century

Belle Boyd
Unidentified Artist · c. 1868

Hooded wall clock with calendar
Ahasuerus I Fromanteel · ca. 1660–65

William Bell
Unidentified Artist · c. 1900

Costume Bell
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century (?)

Alexander Graham Bell
Unidentified Artist · c. 1895

Costume Bell
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Charles Heyer Bell
L. Buchheister · 1856

Costume Bell
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century (?)

Winfield Scott Hancock and David Bell Birney
Mathew Brady Studio, active 1844 - 1894 · 1864

Costume Bell
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century (?)

Alexander Graham Bell
Unidentified Artist · c. 1900

Costume Bell
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century (?)

Alexander Graham Bell
John Wycliffe Lowes Forster, 31 Dec 1850 - 25 Apr 1938 · 1919

Costume Bell
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century (?)

Miser's purse
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

Costume Bell
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Linen Family, June 26, 1886
Unidentified Artist · June 26, 1886

Costume Bell
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century (?)

Alexander Graham Bell
E. J. Holmes · 1892

Costume Bell
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century (?)

Mrs. William McKendree Gwin
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70
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. 774 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 37010 matched · 40 examined · 22 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 2026-09-04 07:12 UTC, replayed here rather than repeated. 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.