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. 12 shown for “Gold Belt Mount with Loop” — 40 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 07:06 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Black velvet belt with gold trim by Jay Smith
Jay Smith, American, 1942 - 1986 · 1980s

Blazer, tie, and belt worn by Ted Corbitt for the 1952 Helsinki XV Olympics
Artist not stated in the record · 1952
Purple leather belt worn by Bernie Worrell of Parliament-Funkadelic
Tony Lama Boots, American, founded 1911 · mid 1990s

Bracelet
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870

Mudcloth ensemble created by Twain's Twines
Twain's Twines, American, founded 1990 · 1990s

Seal with Egg-Shaped Handle
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Pink beaded dress with gold lamé belt
Unidentified · 1920s

Belted Tobacco Pouch
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1890

Lensatic military field compass and pouch owned by Lt. Vernon O. Nicolls
Artist not stated in the record · 1942-1945

Striped dress with cowl collar and matching belt
Unidentified · ca.1970

Light pink belt with bow
Unidentified · mid to late 20th century

Painted cream jeans with cut outs
Levi Strauss & Co., founded 1853 · 1989
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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 354403 matched · 40 examined · 20 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 2026-09-01 07:06 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.