OpenTwo 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. 22 shown for “Mourning dress” — 64 records examined, 36 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 00:37 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Mourning dress
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1848
Black textured wool bodice and skirt with lace
Unidentified · 1890s
Mourning dress
Artist not stated in the record · 1850
Adele Cutts Douglas
Unidentified Artist · c. 1864
Mourning dress
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1883
Mourning
Hermann-Paul, French, born Paris, France 1864-died Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, France 1940 · n.d.
Mourning dress
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1874
Mourning sampler
Artist not stated in the record · 1828 with later additions
Mourning dress
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1867
Mary Lincoln's Mourning Watch
Artist not stated in the record
Mourning dress
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1880
Dama desconocida con turbante rosa (Lady with Pink Turban)
Francisco Estanislao Goyena y O'Daly, born 1805-died ? · 1826
Mourning dress
Artist not stated in the record · 1844
Mourning Pin
Unidentified · 1790s
Mourning dress
Artist not stated in the record · 1872–74
Mourning Ring for William Burnside
Unidentified · 1788
Mourning dress
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1903
Mourning Pin for ER
Unidentified · late 18th - early 19th century
Mourning dress
Artist not stated in the record · 1894–95
Mourning Locket for A. R.
Unidentified · ca. 1780
Mourning dress
Artist not stated in the record · 1894
Mourning dress
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1845
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. 90 matched · 24 examined · 6 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. 22963 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 2026-09-03 00:37 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.