Object-level source protocol
Evidence, not atmosphere.
Every object keeps its identifier, caption, rights, alt text, canonical source, file hash, and origin assessment.
Two media classes. No synthetic imagery.
Archival collection images are found online through official Met or Library of Congress records and reproduced only where the item-level record permits reuse. Original editorial graphics are deterministic typography and evidence compositions created by this publication system; they are labeled as graphics and never presented as documentary photographs.
“Not AI-generated” is established through that provenance chain and the reproducible local renderer—not a probabilistic detector.
FROM THE COLLECTIONDress
French · 1735–40 · Silk, flax
A garment record becomes institutional evidence when material, date, maker, identifier, and rights remain attached.
Object record and image details
- Collection number
- 1983.399.1
- Credit
- Gift of Mary Tavener Holmes, 1983
- Image terms
- Public Domain / Met Open Access
- Origin
- Official institution collection record; independently catalogued, not AI-generated.
- Source
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FROM THE COLLECTIONAfternoon dress
Jeanne Hallée · ca. 1900 · Silk
A less-remembered house remains researchable because its object record survives.
Object record and image details
- Collection number
- 2009.300.3098a, b
- Credit
- Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Gift of Marion Litchfield, 1950
- Image terms
- Public Domain / Met Open Access
- Origin
- Official institution collection record; independently catalogued, not AI-generated.
- Source
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FROM THE COLLECTIONDress
American or European · ca. 1903 · Linen, cotton
Construction evidence can outlive the operating house—but only if the physical object and record stay paired.
Object record and image details
- Collection number
- 1976.258.13
- Credit
- Gift of Miss Eva Drexel Dahlgren, 1976
- Image terms
- Public Domain / Met Open Access
- Origin
- Official institution collection record; independently catalogued, not AI-generated.
- Source
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FROM THE COLLECTIONBall gown
House of Worth · ca. 1872 · Silk
The house is visible as both maker attribution and an enduring cataloguing unit.
Object record and image details
- Collection number
- 46.25.1a–d
- Credit
- Gift of Mrs. Philip K. Rhinelander, 1946
- Image terms
- Public Domain / Met Open Access
- Origin
- Official institution collection record; independently catalogued, not AI-generated.
- Source
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FROM THE COLLECTIONLiz Claiborne, fashion designer, with model
Bernard Gotfryd · 1982 · Photograph
One frame holds a named designer, a model, a photographer, a collection, and an institutional record—separate roles that public shorthand often compresses.
Object record and image details
- Collection number
- gtfy.00717
- Credit
- Bernard Gotfryd photograph collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
- Image terms
- Free to Use and Reuse / Library of Congress curated set
- Origin
- Official institution collection record; independently catalogued, not AI-generated.
- Source
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FROM THE COLLECTIONSporting Look, evening fashions
Toni Frissell · 1956 · Photograph made for Sports Illustrated
The image is a distinct authored work around fashion; the clothes, staging, model, commission, publication, and photograph do not collapse into one ownership question.
Object record and image details
- Collection number
- tofr.08422
- Credit
- Toni Frissell Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
- Image terms
- Free to Use and Reuse / Library of Congress curated set
- Origin
- Official institution collection record; independently catalogued, not AI-generated.
- Source
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FROM THE COLLECTIONReport of New York fashions, spring and summer 1872
Butterick & Co. · 1872 · Advertisement lithograph
The sheet demonstrates a contract-shaped network of design, printing, manufacture, advertising, attribution, and distribution—even when the operative agreements are absent from the image.
Object record and image details
- Collection number
- ppmsca.44953
- Credit
- Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
- Image terms
- Free to Use and Reuse / Library of Congress curated set
- Origin
- Official institution collection record; independently catalogued, not AI-generated.
- Source
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FROM THE COLLECTIONS.D. Sollers & Co., manufacturers of children's fine shoes
Duval & Hunter · 1874 · Advertisement lithograph
A commercial name can identify the business presented to buyers while the image itself preserves a different maker attribution.
Object record and image details
- Collection number
- pga.06009
- Credit
- Popular Graphic Arts Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
- Image terms
- Free to Use and Reuse / Library of Congress curated set
- Origin
- Official institution collection record; independently catalogued, not AI-generated.
- Source
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FROM THE COLLECTIONEvening dress
House of Worth · ca. 1882 · Silk
The record separates the material dress, House of Worth attribution, Charles Frederick Worth design credit, accession, and the museum’s present custody.
Object record and image details
- Collection number
- 2009.300.635a, b
- Credit
- Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of the Princess Viggo in accordance with the wishes of the Misses Hewitt, 1931
- Image terms
- Public Domain / Met Open Access
- Origin
- Official institution collection record; independently catalogued, not AI-generated.
- Source
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FROM THE COLLECTIONBall gown
House of Worth; attributed to Charles Frederick Worth and Jean-Philippe Worth · 1895–1900 · Silk
The dual designer attribution makes succession visible as an evidence question: house continuity does not erase uncertainty about individual authorship.
Object record and image details
- Collection number
- 2009.300.1290a, b
- Credit
- Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. C. Oliver Iselin, 1961
- Image terms
- Public Domain / Met Open Access
- Origin
- Official institution collection record; independently catalogued, not AI-generated.
- Source
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FROM THE COLLECTIONFancy dress costume
House of Worth · ca. 1893 · Silk
An accession-quality record preserves a house object beyond the founder’s lifetime while keeping the object, maker attribution, and museum stewardship distinct.
Object record and image details
- Collection number
- 1994.462a, b
- Credit
- Gift of James A. and Mary Elizabeth Kingsland, 1994
- Image terms
- Public Domain / Met Open Access
- Origin
- Official institution collection record; independently catalogued, not AI-generated.
- Source
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FROM THE COLLECTIONEvening dress
House of Worth · 1898–1900 · Silk
Made after Charles Frederick Worth’s death, the dress lets the house name continue in the record without proving who controlled every creative or economic decision.
Object record and image details
- Collection number
- 1976.258.1a, b
- Credit
- Gift of Miss Eva Drexel Dahlgren, 1976
- Image terms
- Public Domain / Met Open Access
- Origin
- Official institution collection record; independently catalogued, not AI-generated.
- Source
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FROM THE COLLECTIONBridesmaid dress
A. F. Jammes · 1896 · Textile garment
A documented copy after a Worth model makes the line between reference, attribution, and surviving object evidence visible.
Object record and image details
- Collection number
- C.I.41.14.2
- Credit
- Gift of Miss Agnes Miles Carpenter, 1941
- Image terms
- Public Domain / Met Open Access
- Origin
- Official institution collection record; independently catalogued, not AI-generated.
- Source
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FROM THE COLLECTIONDress
Maison Pingat · ca. 1885 · Silk, cotton
Maison Pingat survives here through an exact maker record, construction evidence, custody, and an open image—not through fame alone.
Object record and image details
- Collection number
- 2009.300.628a, b
- Credit
- Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Gift of Lillian E. Glenn Peirce and Mabel Glenn Cooper, 1929
- Image terms
- Public Domain / Met Open Access
- Origin
- Official institution collection record; independently catalogued, not AI-generated.
- Source
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FROM THE COLLECTIONGloria Vanderbilt Cooper
Toni Frissell · 1966 · Photograph made for Vogue
The frame is not neutral delivery: pose, setting, crop, light, garment, commission, and publication context combine to manufacture a public fashion meaning.
Object record and image details
- Collection number
- tofr.52127
- Credit
- Toni Frissell Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
- Image terms
- Free to Use and Reuse / Library of Congress curated set
- Origin
- Official institution collection record; independently catalogued, not AI-generated.
- Source
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FROM THE COLLECTIONBall gown
House of Worth · ca. 1887 · Silk, glass, metallic thread
Materials such as silk, glass, and metallic thread make skilled transformation visible while the museum record still names only the house as maker.
Object record and image details
- Collection number
- 1977.292.2a, b
- Credit
- Gift of Agnes de Mille, 1977
- Image terms
- Public Domain / Met Open Access
- Origin
- Official institution collection record; independently catalogued, not AI-generated.
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FROM THE COLLECTIONWalking suit
House of Worth · ca. 1889 · Silk
A finished suit can preserve the house name while leaving the cutters, fitters, stitchers, finishers, and production negotiations unnamed.
Object record and image details
- Collection number
- 2009.300.73a, b
- Credit
- Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Gift of the Princess Viggo in accordance with the wishes of the Misses Hewitt, 1931
- Image terms
- Public Domain / Met Open Access
- Origin
- Official institution collection record; independently catalogued, not AI-generated.
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FROM THE COLLECTIONEnsemble
House of Worth · 1893 · Silk, jet, metal
The ensemble carries material decisions across components; the surviving object cannot narrate every demonstration, correction, and embodied judgment that produced them.
Object record and image details
- Collection number
- 2009.300.620a–e
- Credit
- Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Gift of Edith Gardiner, 1926
- Image terms
- Public Domain / Met Open Access
- Origin
- Official institution collection record; independently catalogued, not AI-generated.
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FROM THE COLLECTIONFancy dress costume
House of Worth · ca. 1870 · Silk, metal
An early House of Worth object anchors the second carousel in a dated, accessioned material record rather than a prestige claim.
Object record and image details
- Collection number
- 2009.300.1363a, b
- Credit
- Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Designated Purchase Fund, 1983
- Image terms
- Public Domain / Met Open Access
- Origin
- Official institution collection record; independently catalogued, not AI-generated.
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FROM THE COLLECTIONAfternoon dress
House of Worth · ca. 1874 · Silk
The house attribution travels into an afternoon dress, showing identity across use contexts rather than through one repeated silhouette.
Object record and image details
- Collection number
- 1975.259.2a, b
- Credit
- Gift of Etienne Lawrence Sturhahn, 1975
- Image terms
- Public Domain / Met Open Access
- Origin
- Official institution collection record; independently catalogued, not AI-generated.
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FROM THE COLLECTIONDinner dress
House of Worth · ca. 1877 · Silk
The dinner dress record keeps maker, date, medium, accession, and custody together—the evidence layer that lets a house remain researchable.
Object record and image details
- Collection number
- 25.63a, b
- Credit
- Gift of Estate of Mrs. Pierpont Morgan, 1925
- Image terms
- Public Domain / Met Open Access
- Origin
- Official institution collection record; independently catalogued, not AI-generated.
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FROM THE COLLECTIONCoat
House of Worth · 1898 · Silk
A coat expands the house record beyond gowns; institutional identity has to travel across object categories as well as seasons.
Object record and image details
- Collection number
- C.I.45.95.12
- Credit
- Gift of Mrs. William Glenn, 1945
- Image terms
- Public Domain / Met Open Access
- Origin
- Official institution collection record; independently catalogued, not AI-generated.
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FROM THE COLLECTIONEvening ensemble
House of Worth · 1893 · Silk, linen, metal
A multi-part ensemble makes coordination visible: several components can carry one house attribution while retaining object-level description.
Object record and image details
- Collection number
- 2009.300.622a–c
- Credit
- Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Gift of Edith Gardiner, 1926
- Image terms
- Public Domain / Met Open Access
- Origin
- Official institution collection record; independently catalogued, not AI-generated.
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FROM THE COLLECTIONWedding dress
House of Worth · 1896 · Silk, pearl
The wedding dress tests the system against a specific social function while the museum record preserves the house-level maker attribution.
Object record and image details
- Collection number
- C.I.41.14.1
- Credit
- Gift of Miss Agnes Miles Carpenter, 1941
- Image terms
- Public Domain / Met Open Access
- Origin
- Official institution collection record; independently catalogued, not AI-generated.
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FROM THE COLLECTIONOpera cape
House of Worth · ca. 1899 · Silk
The opera cape is a useful counterexample: a house code cannot mean that every object shares one form, function, or proportion.
Object record and image details
- Collection number
- 35.134.19
- Credit
- Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1935
- Image terms
- Public Domain / Met Open Access
- Origin
- Official institution collection record; independently catalogued, not AI-generated.
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FROM THE COLLECTIONEvening coat
House of Worth · 1901 · Silk, European polecat fur
Dated 1901, the coat keeps the House of Worth name in the object record after Charles Frederick Worth’s death without pretending the record proves every internal decision.
Object record and image details
- Collection number
- 2009.300.64
- Credit
- Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Edith Gardiner, 1926
- Image terms
- Public Domain / Met Open Access
- Origin
- Official institution collection record; independently catalogued, not AI-generated.
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Machine-readable manifests
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