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 “Length of wool Calimanco” — 64 records examined, 37 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 12:15 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Length of wool Calimanco
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

Poncho
Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

Length of wool Calimanco
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

Red, white, and blue striped tie worn by Melvin Van Peebles
Bert Pulitzer Company, Inc., American, founded 1975 · 2000 - 2010

Length
Artist not stated in the record · 4th–5th century

Yellow asymmetrical wrap around coat dress
Unidentified · 1960s - 1990s

Length of wool damask
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1720

Letter carrier uniform trousers
Artist not stated in the record · 1948

Length of wool damask
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1710 (?)

Green coat worn by Oprah Winfrey as Sofia in The Color Purple
Aggie Guerard Rodgers, American, born 1943 · 1985

Length of woven wool and silk
Christopher Dresser · 1870s

Blue wool tweed jacket and skirt
Pasternak, American, 1903 - 1961 · 1960s

Carpet with Palm Trees, Ibexes, and Birds
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–early 17th century

Gray wool skirt by Arthur McGee
Arthur McGee, American, 1933 - 2019 · 1970s

Costume
Artist not stated in the record · 1850–1900

Brown pinstripe suit jacket and skirt
Unidentified · ca. 1960

Terracotta pyxis (box) with lid
Painter of Philadelphia 2449 · ca. 460 BCE

Fragment
Artist not stated in the record · 17th–18th century

Ensemble
Artist not stated in the record · 19th–early 20th century

Textile
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Ensemble
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Lavender tweed swing coat designed by Arthur McGee
Arthur McGee, American, 1933 - 2019 · mid 20th-late 20th century

Table carpet fragment
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th century

Bed cover
Artist not stated in the record · 19th 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. 240 matched · 24 examined · 9 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. 3073225 matched · 40 examined · 28 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 2026-08-28 12:15 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.