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. 23 shown for “Robert Havell Jr.” — 64 records examined, 31 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 00:51 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
View of the Bay and City of New York from Weehawken
Robert Havell Jr. · 1840

Chinese Gallery As It Was, Plate XV in Illustrations of Her Majesty's Palace at Brighton...Printed by T. Sutherland, Frederic Lewis, Robert Havel Jr., and M. Dubourg. Published by J. B. Nichols and Son, London, England, 1838.
John Nash, 1752 – 1835 · 1820

Panoramic View of New York Taken from the North River
Robert Havell Jr. · 1840

Hooping Crane, Grus Americana (Young)
Artist not stated in the record · 1835

Panoramic View of New York Taken from the North River
Robert Havell Jr. · 1844

Whooping Crane, Grus Americana
Havell, Jr., Robert · 1834

Panoramic View of New York, from the East River
Robert Havell Jr. · 1844

Frigate Pelican, from the book Birds of America
Robert Havell, Jr., born Reading, England 1793-died Tarrytown, NY 1878 · 1835

Tea Urn
Paul Revere Jr. · 1791

Panoramic View of New York
Robert Havell, Jr., born Reading, England 1793-died Tarrytown, NY 1878 · 1844
![Prairie Titlark. Anthus hypogaeus [current name: American Pipit. Anthus rubescens], from "The Birds of America," plate 80 [later LXXX], by John James Audubon](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fdp%2Fweb-large%2FDP-46585-001.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Prairie Titlark. Anthus hypogaeus [current name: American Pipit. Anthus rubescens], from "The Birds of America," plate 80 [later LXXX]
John James Audubon · 1830

Chuck-Wills Widow, Caprimulgus carolinensis. Brifs., Male. 1, Female. 2, Harlequin Snake
Artist not stated in the record · 1829
![Hooded Warbler. Sylvia mitrata [current name: Hooded Warbler. Wilsonia citrina], from "The Birds of America," plate CX, by John James Audubon](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fdp%2Fweb-large%2FDP-46583-001.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Hooded Warbler. Sylvia mitrata [current name: Hooded Warbler. Wilsonia citrina], from "The Birds of America," plate CX
John James Audubon · 1831

American Robin, Turdus Migratorius, Male, 1. Female, 2. Young, 3., Chestnut oak. Quercus Vrinus
Artist not stated in the record · 1832
![Pewee or Pewit Flycatcher. Muscicapa fusca [current name: Eastern Phoebe. Sayornis phoebe], from "The Birds of America," plate CXX, by John James Audubon](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fdp%2Fweb-large%2FDP-46584-001.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Pewee or Pewit Flycatcher. Muscicapa fusca [current name: Eastern Phoebe. Sayornis phoebe], from "The Birds of America," plate CXX
John James Audubon · 1827–38

Virginia Partridge, Perdix Virginiana. Lath., Male Adult, 1. Young, 2. Female Adult, 3. Young, 4. Very Young Birds, 5.
Artist not stated in the record · 1830
![Cat Bird. Turdus felivox [current name: Gray Catbird. Dumetella carolinensis], from "The Birds of America," plate CXXVIII, by John James Audubon](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fdp%2Fweb-large%2FDP-46577-001.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Cat Bird. Turdus felivox [current name: Gray Catbird. Dumetella carolinensis], from "The Birds of America," plate CXXVIII
John James Audubon · 1827–38

Scarlet Ibis, Ibis Rubra Viell, 1. Adult, 2. Young Second Autumn
Havell, Jr., Robert · 1837
![Whip-Poor-Will. Caprimulgus vociferus [current name: Eastern Whip-poor-will. Caprimulgus vociferus], from "The Birds of America," plate 82 [later LXXXII], by John James Audubon](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fdp%2Fweb-large%2FDP-46578-001.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Whip-Poor-Will. Caprimulgus vociferus [current name: Eastern Whip-poor-will. Caprimulgus vociferus], from "The Birds of America," plate 82 [later LXXXII]
John James Audubon · 1830

Hooping Crane. Grus Americana. Adult male.
Whatman Paper Company · 1834
![Chipping Sparrow. Fringilla socialis [current name: Chipping Sparrow. Spizella passerina], from "The Birds of America," plate CIV, by John James Audubon](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fdp%2Fweb-large%2FDP-46574-002.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Chipping Sparrow. Fringilla socialis [current name: Chipping Sparrow. Spizella passerina], from "The Birds of America," plate CIV
John James Audubon · ca. 1830

Equisetum x litorale Kuhlw.
Artist not stated in the record · 4 Aug 1895
![Marsh Wren. Troglodytes palustris [current name: Marsh Wren. Cistothorus palustris], from "The Birds of America," plate 98 [misnumbered, should be 100] [later C], by John James Audubon](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fdp%2Fweb-large%2FDP-46582-001.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Marsh Wren. Troglodytes palustris [current name: Marsh Wren. Cistothorus palustris], from "The Birds of America," plate 98 [misnumbered, should be 100] [later C]
John James Audubon · 1830
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. 2152 matched · 24 examined · 2 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.12 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 278755 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 00:51 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.