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. 11 shown for “Wedding Dress” — 40 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 20:11 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.

Wedding dress worn by Lollaretta Pemberton with veil and headpiece
Unidentified · 1939

Fan
Unidentified (French) · 1850-1870

Wedding portrait of Lollaretta Pemberton and Grover Allen
Artist not stated in the record · 1939

Wedding dress with beaded lace bodice
Bill Washington, American · 1980s

Untitled (Victorian Collage)
Unidentified, active 1880-1890 · 1880-1890

The Bride
Gari Melchers, born Detroit MI 1860-died Falmouth, VA 1932 · ca. 1907

Jewish Bride, Constantinople
Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, born Manlius Square, NY 1814-died Toledo, OH 1889 · n.d.

Eugenie Empress of the French in Her Bridal Costume
E. C. Kellogg, born Tolland, CT 1811-died Hartford, CT 1881

Alice Pike Barney, in Wedding Gown
Jared B. Flagg, born New Haven, CT 1820-died New York City 1899 · 1876

Cream satin wedding dress with grommet embellishments and train
Julius Garfinckel & Co, American, 1905 - 1990 · ca. 1950

Alice Barney in White Satin
Hubert Vos, born Maastricht, Netherlands 1855-died New York City 1935 · 1894
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. 23627 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 20:11 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.