OpenGlyph — Catalogue of the American Public DomainJurisdiction: United StatesRev. 2026.08
Images / art

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. 21 shown for “Boot with Spur” — 64 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 22:18 UTC · fetched live for this request

Object
Public domainThe Met’s isPublicDomain field is true for this object.
CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian’s metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Not shownAnything failing its archive’s rights field is dropped server-side and never appears here.
Boot with Spur, by Challinor, Taylor and Company

Boot with Spur

Challinor, Taylor and Company · 1870–90

Public domainThe Met
Boot with Spur

Boot with Spur

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Boot with Spur, by Challinor, Taylor and Company

Boot with Spur

Challinor, Taylor and Company · 1870–90

Public domainThe Met
Ace of Clubs, by E. Le Tellier, French, active late 19th century

Ace of Clubs

E. Le Tellier, French, active late 19th century · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Rowel Spur

Rowel Spur

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400

Public domainThe Met
Boot

Boot

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armor for a Member of the Barberini Family

Armor for a Member of the Barberini Family

Artist not stated in the record · armor, ca. 1623–30; spurs, early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Filigree Shoe

Filigree Shoe

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Prick Spur

Prick Spur

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd–1st century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Worn Shoe Sole

Worn Shoe Sole

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Prick Spur

Prick Spur

Artist not stated in the record · 2nd–3rd century

Public domainThe Met
Shoe, inscribed "Souvenir de Wiesbade"

Shoe, inscribed "Souvenir de Wiesbade"

Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze spur

Bronze spur

Artist not stated in the record

Public domainThe Met
The Beheading of St. John Baptist, by Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863

The Beheading of St. John Baptist

Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863 · 1820-1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of Rowel Spurs

Pair of Rowel Spurs

Artist not stated in the record · 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Harrimanella hypnoides (L.) Coville

Harrimanella hypnoides (L.) Coville

Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1919

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of Rowel Spurs

Pair of Rowel Spurs

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1500 and 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Black suede knee high boots, by Unidentified

Black suede knee high boots

Unidentified · late 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of Rowel Spurs

Pair of Rowel Spurs

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1350

Public domainThe Met
Pair of Rowel Spurs

Pair of Rowel Spurs

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400

Public domainThe Met
General Étienne-Maurice Gérard (1773–1852), by Jacques Louis David

General Étienne-Maurice Gérard (1773–1852)

Jacques Louis David · 1816

Public domainThe Met
What was queried

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. 709 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 252673 matched · 40 examined · 31 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.9 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 22:18 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.