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 “Ortiz's Art Clothing and Ace Tailors, American” — 64 records examined, 52 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 06:16 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 Fortune-Teller
Georges de La Tour · probably 1630s

Denim and suede suit jacket and bellbottoms worn by Charley Pride
Ortiz's Art Clothing and Ace Tailors, American · 1976

Riding ensemble
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1896

Tailleur d'Habits, outils, from Diderot's Encyclopaedia
Denis Diderot, French, 1713–1784 · 1763

Trousers
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1840

Calavera of the Tailor
José Guadalupe Posada, Mexican, Aguascalientes, Mexico 1852-died Mexico City, Mexico 1913 · published 1947

Quilt, Center Square and Bars pattern
Amish maker · 1892

Boutique de Tailleur à Venise
William Unger, German, 1837 - 1932 · 1876

Portrait of a Man, Possibly a Self-Portrait
Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) · ca. 1635

Tailleur d'Habits, Details, from Diderot's Encyclopaedia
Denis Diderot, French, 1713–1784 · 1763

Ensemble associated with Marian Anderson's 1939 Lincoln Memorial concert
Unidentified · 1939; modified 1993

US Coast Guard Dinner Dress Blue Jacket worn by Commander Merle Smith Jr.
Artist not stated in the record · 1988
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. 46 matched · 24 examined · 19 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.5 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1627673 matched · 40 examined · 33 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.7 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-05 06:16 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.