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. 20 shown for “Robert Mitchell” — 64 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 17:56 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.
Plans, And Views in Perspective. With Descriptions, Of Buildings Erected In England and Scotland: and also an essay, to elucidate the Grecian, Roman and Gothic architecture, accompanied with designs., by Robert Mitchell

Plans, And Views in Perspective. With Descriptions, Of Buildings Erected In England and Scotland: and also an essay, to elucidate the Grecian, Roman and Gothic architecture, accompanied with designs.

Robert Mitchell · 1801

Public domainThe Met
Robert Byington Mitchell, by Mathew Brady Studio, active 1844 - 1894

Robert Byington Mitchell

Mathew Brady Studio, active 1844 - 1894 · c. 1862

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fluellen Making Pistol Eat the Leek (Shakespeare, Henry V, Act 5, Scene 1), by Robert Mitchell Meadows

Fluellen Making Pistol Eat the Leek (Shakespeare, Henry V, Act 5, Scene 1)

Robert Mitchell Meadows · August 1, 1795

Public domainThe Met
Photograph of Edward, Walter, and Kathleen Mitchell holding a kitten

Photograph of Edward, Walter, and Kathleen Mitchell holding a kitten

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Comtesse de la Châtre (Marie Charlotte Louise Perrette Aglaé Bontemps, 1762–1848), by Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun

Comtesse de la Châtre (Marie Charlotte Louise Perrette Aglaé Bontemps, 1762–1848)

Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun · 1789

Public domainThe Met
Quiscalus quiscula stonei

Quiscalus quiscula stonei

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Apr 1901

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
High chest of drawers

High chest of drawers

Artist not stated in the record · 1695–1720

Public domainThe Met
Eugène Joseph Stanislas Foullon d'Ecotier (1753–1821), by Antoine Vestier

Eugène Joseph Stanislas Foullon d'Ecotier (1753–1821)

Antoine Vestier · 1785

Public domainThe Met
Nose Ornament

Nose Ornament

Artist not stated in the record · 1–1000 CE

Public domainThe Met
Beaker with figure and Spondylus shell, by Lambayeque (Sicán) artist(s)

Beaker with figure and Spondylus shell

Lambayeque (Sicán) artist(s) · 900–1100 CE

Public domainThe Met
Pandion haliaetus

Pandion haliaetus

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Apr 1901

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
[Two Young Men in Bow Ties, One Seated Holding a Book, One Standing], by Robert Boning

[Two Young Men in Bow Ties, One Seated Holding a Book, One Standing]

Robert Boning · 1850s

Public domainThe Met
[Merchants' Carnival Portrait: Sparks & Coates Palace Drug Store and G. R. Mitchell Druggist, Moberky, Missouri], by S. C. Burgess

[Merchants' Carnival Portrait: Sparks & Coates Palace Drug Store and G. R. Mitchell Druggist, Moberky, Missouri]

S. C. Burgess · 1880s–1890s

Public domainThe Met
And Teddy (Roosevelt) Comes Marching Home, by Eugene Zimmerman, 1862 - 1935

And Teddy (Roosevelt) Comes Marching Home

Eugene Zimmerman, 1862 - 1935 · 1898

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vase, by Louis C. Tiffany

Vase

Louis C. Tiffany · ca. 1900

Public domainThe Met
Aristida longespica Poir.

Aristida longespica Poir.

Artist not stated in the record · 22 Oct 1965

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sir Henry Spelman (Henricus Spelmannus Eques Auratus), by William Faithorne the Elder

Sir Henry Spelman (Henricus Spelmannus Eques Auratus)

William Faithorne the Elder · 1664

Public domainThe Met
Dichanthelium acuminatum (Sw.) Gould & C.A. Clark var. acuminatum

Dichanthelium acuminatum (Sw.) Gould & C.A. Clark var. acuminatum

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Apr 1947

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Funerary mask, by Lambayeque (Sicán) artist(s)

Funerary mask

Lambayeque (Sicán) artist(s) · 900–1100 CE

Public domainThe Met
Tripsacum dactyloides (L.) L.

Tripsacum dactyloides (L.) L.

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Jun 1947

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. 73 matched · 24 examined · 5 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. 159164 matched · 40 examined · 24 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 2026-09-04 17:56 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.