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. 24 shown for “Boss from a Horse Breast Collar” — 64 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 13:00 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.
Boss from a Horse Breast Collar

Boss from a Horse Breast Collar

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–18th century

Public domainThe Met
Letter carrier uniform jacket, by Penn Garment Co.

Letter carrier uniform jacket

Penn Garment Co. · 1956-1965

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Boss from a Horse Breast Collar

Boss from a Horse Breast Collar

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–18th century

Public domainThe Met
Women's US Army Service jacket worn by Brigadier General Hazel Johnson-Brown, by Sugarman Uniforms, American

Women's US Army Service jacket worn by Brigadier General Hazel Johnson-Brown

Sugarman Uniforms, American · 1980

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Boss from a Horse Breast Collar

Boss from a Horse Breast Collar

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–18th century

Public domainThe Met
Jacket from Fruit of Islam uniform

Jacket from Fruit of Islam uniform

Artist not stated in the record · 1950-1959

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Boss from a Horse Breast Collar

Boss from a Horse Breast Collar

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–18th century

Public domainThe Met
Uniform shirt

Uniform shirt

Artist not stated in the record · 1948-1956

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Boss from a Horse Breast Collar

Boss from a Horse Breast Collar

Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–18th century

Public domainThe Met
Black pigeon breast bodice with cording applique, by Unidentified

Black pigeon breast bodice with cording applique

Unidentified · 1900s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Holy Family with an Angel, by Raffaellino del Garbo (also known as Raffaelle de' Capponi and Raffaelle de' Carli)

Holy Family with an Angel

Raffaellino del Garbo (also known as Raffaelle de' Capponi and Raffaelle de' Carli) · ca. 1490

Public domainThe Met
Cream wool coat with burgundy velvet collar and rhinestone buttons, by Saks Fifth Avenue, American, founded 1867

Cream wool coat with burgundy velvet collar and rhinestone buttons

Saks Fifth Avenue, American, founded 1867 · 1960s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Composed Armor for Man and Horse, by Missaglia workshop

Composed Armor for Man and Horse

Missaglia workshop · ca. 1450–1525 and later

Public domainThe Met
US Navy dress jumper worn by Lorenzo DuFau on USS Mason

US Navy dress jumper worn by Lorenzo DuFau on USS Mason

Artist not stated in the record · 1944-1945

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tympanum with a Horse and Rider

Tympanum with a Horse and Rider

Artist not stated in the record · second half 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Red double-breasted wool coat, by Unidentified

Red double-breasted wool coat

Unidentified · 1960s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble statue of a wounded Amazon

Marble statue of a wounded Amazon

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

Public domainThe Met
Army mess dress blue jacket worn by Louis J. Beasley, by Kenzar, Japanese

Army mess dress blue jacket worn by Louis J. Beasley

Kenzar, Japanese · mid 20th Century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Breast Defense (Peytral) from a Horse Armor

Breast Defense (Peytral) from a Horse Armor

Artist not stated in the record · 15th–17th century

Public domainThe Met
Blouse, Escape Map

Blouse, Escape Map

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Merry Company on a Terrace, by Jan Steen

Merry Company on a Terrace

Jan Steen · ca. 1670

Public domainThe Met
Double breasted taupe suit jacket, by Unidentified

Double breasted taupe suit jacket

Unidentified · ca. 1940

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Close-Helmet for the Field and Tourney

Close-Helmet for the Field and Tourney

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1560–65; front collar lames, 1544

Public domainThe Met
Horse collar owned by the Hardiman family, by Homer Hardiman, American

Horse collar owned by the Hardiman family

Homer Hardiman, American · 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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. 145 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 1959110 matched · 40 examined · 15 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.12 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 13:00 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.