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 “White lab coat worn by Dr. Ben Carson” — 40 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 08:38 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.

White lab coat worn by Dr. Ben Carson
Artist not stated in the record · 1984-2012

Green medical scrubs worn by Dr. Ben Carson
Artist not stated in the record · 1984-2012

Model of the conjoined brains of Ladan and Lalah Bijani used by Dr. Ben Carson
Unidentified · 2003

Trephine used by Dr. Ben Carson
Artist not stated in the record · 1984-1995

Desktop nameplate used by Dr. Ben Carson
Unidentified · 1994

Lapel pin for 48th Infantry Regiment Unit worn by General Colin L. Powell
United States Army, American, founded 1775 · ca. 1960-1962

Pin for 48th Infantry Dragoons worn by General Colin L. Powell
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1958-1960

Pin for 48th Infantry Dragoons worn by General Colin L. Powell
Artist not stated in the record · 1958-1993

Fur coat worn by Max Julien as Goldie in the film The Mack
Artist not stated in the record · 1973

Black tail coat with white pocket handkerchief worn by Cab Calloway
Artist not stated in the record · 1976-1995

Grey tail coat worn by Cab Calloway
After Six, Inc., American, founded 1903 · 1976-1995
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. 821989 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 2026-09-03 08:38 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.