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. 12 shown for “Francis Luis Mora, 27 Jul 1874 - 5 Jun 1940” — 40 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 04:50 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.
Self-portrait, by Francis Luis Mora, 27 Jul 1874 - 5 Jun 1940

Self-portrait

Francis Luis Mora, 27 Jul 1874 - 5 Jun 1940 · c. 1930

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
John White Alexander, by Francis Luis Mora, 27 Jul 1874 - 5 Jun 1940

John White Alexander

Francis Luis Mora, 27 Jul 1874 - 5 Jun 1940 · 1911

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Surrender of Cornwallis, by F. Luis Mora, born Montevideo, Uruguay 1874-died New York City 1940

The Surrender of Cornwallis

F. Luis Mora, born Montevideo, Uruguay 1874-died New York City 1940 · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Arrival of Colonel John Donaldson (design for mural), by F. Luis Mora, born Montevideo, Uruguay 1874-died New York City 1940

Arrival of Colonel John Donaldson (design for mural)

F. Luis Mora, born Montevideo, Uruguay 1874-died New York City 1940

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Abundance of Today (mural study, Clarksville, Tennessee Post Office), by F. Luis Mora, born Montevideo, Uruguay 1874-died New York City 1940

Abundance of Today (mural study, Clarksville, Tennessee Post Office)

F. Luis Mora, born Montevideo, Uruguay 1874-died New York City 1940 · ca. 1937-1938

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Surrender of Cornwallis (from the portfolio "The Bicentennial Pageant of George Washington"), by F. Luis Mora, born Montevideo, Uruguay 1874-died New York City 1940

The Surrender of Cornwallis (from the portfolio "The Bicentennial Pageant of George Washington")

F. Luis Mora, born Montevideo, Uruguay 1874-died New York City 1940 · 1932

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Surrender of Cornwallis (cancelled plate from the portfolio "The Bicentennial Pageant of George Washington"), by F. Luis Mora, born Montevideo, Uruguay 1874-died New York City 1940

The Surrender of Cornwallis (cancelled plate from the portfolio "The Bicentennial Pageant of George Washington")

F. Luis Mora, born Montevideo, Uruguay 1874-died New York City 1940 · ca. 1932

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mrs. Louisa Wray, by José María Mora, c. 1847 - 18 Oct 1926

Mrs. Louisa Wray

José María Mora, c. 1847 - 18 Oct 1926 · c. 1874

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Eryngium heterophyllum Engelm.

Eryngium heterophyllum Engelm.

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Jul 1934 to 28 Jul 1934

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mary Anderson, by José María Mora, c. 1847 - 18 Oct 1926

Mary Anderson

José María Mora, c. 1847 - 18 Oct 1926 · 1878

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mary Anderson, by José María Mora, c. 1847 - 18 Oct 1926

Mary Anderson

José María Mora, c. 1847 - 18 Oct 1926 · c. 1880-85

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lobelia fenestralis Cav.

Lobelia fenestralis Cav.

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Jul 1934 to 28 Jul 1934

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. The archive returned no records for this term.0 matched
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 2860863 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 04:50 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.