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 “Old ivy from Mount Vernon, Mount Vernon, Virginia” — 40 records examined, 22 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 10:04 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.

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.

Old ivy from Mount Vernon, Mount Vernon, Virginia

Old ivy from Mount Vernon, Mount Vernon, Virginia

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Washington at Mount Vernon (cancelled plate from the portfolio "The Bicentennial Pageant of George Washington"), by Childe Hassam, born Dorchester, MA 1859-died East Hampton, NY 1935

Washington at Mount Vernon (cancelled plate from the portfolio "The Bicentennial Pageant of George Washington")

Childe Hassam, born Dorchester, MA 1859-died East Hampton, NY 1935 · ca. 1932

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mount Vernon, by Frances Mary "Jennie" Bellows Millard, born Rockingham, VT 1816-died Troy, NY 1853

Mount Vernon

Frances Mary "Jennie" Bellows Millard, born Rockingham, VT 1816-died Troy, NY 1853 · ca. 1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Washington at Mount Vernon (from the portfolio "The Bicentennial Pageant of George Washington"), by Childe Hassam, born Dorchester, MA 1859-died East Hampton, NY 1935

Washington at Mount Vernon (from the portfolio "The Bicentennial Pageant of George Washington")

Childe Hassam, born Dorchester, MA 1859-died East Hampton, NY 1935 · 1932

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Piece of George Washington’s mahogany coffin

Piece of George Washington’s mahogany coffin

Artist not stated in the record · ca 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Commelina virginica L.

Commelina virginica L.

Artist not stated in the record · 31 Aug 2013

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Genl. Lafayette's Departure from Mount Vernon 1784, by Tholey, Charles P.

Genl. Lafayette's Departure from Mount Vernon 1784

Tholey, Charles P. · 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mount Vernon, by Ernest C. Peixotto, born San Francisco, CA 1869-died New York City 1940

Mount Vernon

Ernest C. Peixotto, born San Francisco, CA 1869-died New York City 1940 · 1898

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wooden George Washington plaque from James Crutchett’s Mount Vernon Factory, Washington, D.C., 1852, by America Bank

Wooden George Washington plaque from James Crutchett’s Mount Vernon Factory, Washington, D.C., 1852

America Bank · 1859-11-14

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mount Vernon, by Thomas Doughty, born Philadelphia, PA 1791-died New York City 1856

Mount Vernon

Thomas Doughty, born Philadelphia, PA 1791-died New York City 1856 · 1832

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
(Mount Vernon), by Joseph C. Claghorn, born Philadelphia, PA 1869-died Bethesda, MD 1947

(Mount Vernon)

Joseph C. Claghorn, born Philadelphia, PA 1869-died Bethesda, MD 1947 · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mount Vernon, by Unidentified

Mount Vernon

Unidentified · 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. 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. 648284 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 2026-09-02 10:04 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.