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. 16 shown for “Combat boots worn by Andre M. Jones during the Iraq War” — 44 records examined, 15 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 14:22 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.
Relief fragment: cavalrymen along a stream in mountainous terrain

Relief fragment: cavalrymen along a stream in mountainous terrain

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 704–681 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Combat boots worn by Andre M. Jones during the Iraq War

Combat boots worn by Andre M. Jones during the Iraq War

Artist not stated in the record · 2003

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Serpent labret with articulated tongue, by Mexica artist(s)

Serpent labret with articulated tongue

Mexica artist(s) · 1325–1521 CE

Public domainThe Met
Map of Al-Fallujah, Iraq used by Andre M. Jones during the Iraq War

Map of Al-Fallujah, Iraq used by Andre M. Jones during the Iraq War

Artist not stated in the record · 2000

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Salome, by Henri Regnault

Salome

Henri Regnault · 1870

Public domainThe Met
Army jacket worn by Andre M. Jones during the Iraq War

Army jacket worn by Andre M. Jones during the Iraq War

Artist not stated in the record · 2003

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Ballet from "Robert le Diable", by Edgar Degas

The Ballet from "Robert le Diable"

Edgar Degas · 1871

Public domainThe Met
Helmet worn by Private George Emmett Morrison during World War I

Helmet worn by Private George Emmett Morrison during World War I

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1917

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dead Acres - St. Mihiel Sector, by Smith, J. Andre

Dead Acres - St. Mihiel Sector

Smith, J. Andre · ca 1918

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Square in Neufmaisons, by Smith, J. Andre

A Square in Neufmaisons

Smith, J. Andre · 1918-04

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Corner in Beaumont, by Smith, J. Andre

Corner in Beaumont

Smith, J. Andre · 1918-10

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A View of Neufchateau, by Smith, J. Andre

A View of Neufchateau

Smith, J. Andre · 1918-06

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
American Graves at Menil-la-Tour, by Smith, J. Andre

American Graves at Menil-la-Tour

Smith, J. Andre · 1918-06

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Forced Landing, by Smith, J. Andre

A Forced Landing

Smith, J. Andre · 1918

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Street in Sanzey, by Smith, J. Andre

A Street in Sanzey

Smith, J. Andre · 1918

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A Belleau Farm, by Smith, J. Andre

A Belleau Farm

Smith, J. Andre · 1918-08

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. 4 matched · 4 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.4 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 2458807 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 2026-09-02 14:22 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.