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. 23 shown for “James Smillie” — 51 records examined, 22 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 04:00 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Landscape (from McGuire Scrapbook)
James Smillie · 1840
Corcovado From Boto-Fogo Bay, Rio
Sherman, C. · 1845
Lime Rock on the Rondout, New York (from McGuire Scrapbook)
James Smillie · 1840
The Battlefield of Brandywine
James Smillie, born Edinburgh, Scotland 1807-died Poughkeepsie, NY 1885
On the Ausable
James David Smillie · 1869
The Voyage of Life--Youth
James Smillie, born Edinburgh, Scotland 1807-died Poughkeepsie, NY 1885 · 1850
The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak
James Smillie · 1866
The Voyage of Life--Manhood
James Smillie, born Edinburgh, Scotland 1807-died Poughkeepsie, NY 1885 · ca. 1855
Dover Plains
James Smillie · 1851
The Voyage of Life--Youth
James Smillie, born Edinburgh, Scotland 1807-died Poughkeepsie, NY 1885 · ca. 1853
Dream of Arcadia
James Smillie · 1851
The Voyage of Life--Old Age
James Smillie, born Edinburgh, Scotland 1807-died Poughkeepsie, NY 1885 · ca. 1856
The American Landscape, No. 1, Engraved from Nature Expressly for This Work, and from Well Authenticated Pictures, With Historical and Topographical Illustrations
William Cullen Bryant · 1830
The Voyage of Life--Childhood
James Smillie, born Edinburgh, Scotland 1807-died Poughkeepsie, NY 1885 · ca. 1855
East Hampton Meadows
George Henry Smillie · 1883
York Town Battle-Ground
James Smillie, born Edinburgh, Scotland 1807-died Poughkeepsie, NY 1885
Bay and Harbor of New York from Bedlow's Island
Edmund C. Coates · 1864 or 1866
Washington Irving
James David Smillie, 1833 - 1909 · 1859
Washington Irving's Illustrations of the Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Designed and Etched by F.O.C. Darley for the Members of the American Art Union, 1850
Felix Octavius Carr Darley · 1849–50
Untitled (Landscape)
James D. Smillie, born New York City 1833-died New York City 1909 · 1879
Bay and Harbor of New York from Bedlow's Island
Edmund C. Coates · 1850–60
Kaaterskill Clove, January 1865
James D. Smillie, born New York City 1833-died New York City 1909 · 1865
Tenaya Cañon, from Glacier Point, Yosemite
James D. Smillie (American, 1833-1909) · 1872
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. 11 matched · 11 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.11 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 118635 matched · 40 examined · 22 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 2026-09-06 04:00 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.