OpenTwo 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. 12 shown for “Pair of Ankle Shoes” — 40 records examined, 23 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 19:28 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.
Pair of black stiletto heel shoes by Charles Jourdan from Mae's Millinery Shop
Artist not stated in the record · 1941-1994
Gold heeled sandals
Unidentified · 1970s-1980s
Uniform boots
Artist not stated in the record · After 1928
Red suede and leather woven pumps
Hollywood Rounders · ca.1950
Costume worn by Maxine Jones in "Giving Him Something He Can Feel" video
Danny Flynn · 1992
Tan T-strap heeled shoes with cut outs
Selby Shoe Co., American, founded 1928 · 1960s-1970s
Costume worn by Terry Ellis in "Giving Him Something He Can Feel" video
Danny Flynn · 1992
Black platform ankle boots worn by Bootsy Collins
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1990
Black cotton bathing shoes with white laces
Unidentified · ca. 1910
Black Oxford wingtip shoes worn by Melvin Van Peebles
Unidentified · mid to late 20th century
Costume boots for the Wizard in The Wiz on Broadway, worn by Carl Hall
Geoffrey Holder, Trinidadian American, 1930 - 2014 · ca. 1977
Red and white high top sneakers worn by Melvin Van Peebles
Pony, American, founded 1972 · 1986
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. 2860277 matched · 40 examined · 23 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 2026-08-28 19:28 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.