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. 24 shown for “Baker, Joseph E.” — 64 records examined, 10 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 09:31 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.
L'Arlésienne: Madame Joseph-Michel Ginoux (Marie Julien, 1848–1911), by Vincent van Gogh

L'Arlésienne: Madame Joseph-Michel Ginoux (Marie Julien, 1848–1911)

Vincent van Gogh · 1888–89

Public domainThe Met
Heel and Toe, by Armstrong and Company

Heel and Toe

Armstrong and Company · 1873

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Joseph Interpreting the Dreams of His Fellow Prisoners, by Master of the Story of Joseph

Joseph Interpreting the Dreams of His Fellow Prisoners

Master of the Story of Joseph

Public domainThe Met
The March of Miles Standish, by Armstrong and Company

The March of Miles Standish

Armstrong and Company · 1873

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Venice, from the Porch of Madonna della Salute, by Joseph Mallord William Turner

Venice, from the Porch of Madonna della Salute

Joseph Mallord William Turner · ca. 1835

Public domainThe Met
The Colonel! Eric Bayley's The Colonel Comedy Company by Joseph E. Baker and published by Forbes Lithographic Manufacturing Company, by Forbes Lithograph Manufacturing Company

The Colonel! Eric Bayley's The Colonel Comedy Company by Joseph E. Baker and published by Forbes Lithographic Manufacturing Company

Forbes Lithograph Manufacturing Company · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Rebuke of Adam and Eve, by Charles Joseph Natoire

The Rebuke of Adam and Eve

Charles Joseph Natoire · 1740

Public domainThe Met
Emma Abbott Grand Opera Company, by Baker, Joseph E.

Emma Abbott Grand Opera Company

Baker, Joseph E. · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790), by Joseph Siffred Duplessis

Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)

Joseph Siffred Duplessis · 1778

Public domainThe Met
Arms of the United States of America by Joseph Edward Baker and John Henry Bufford

Arms of the United States of America by Joseph Edward Baker and John Henry Bufford

Artist not stated in the record · 1864

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hunting Sword with Scabbard, by Joseph Deutschmann

Hunting Sword with Scabbard

Joseph Deutschmann · ca. 1740

Public domainThe Met
Florence, by Baker, Joseph E.

Florence

Baker, Joseph E. · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Story of Joseph, by Biagio d'Antonio

The Story of Joseph

Biagio d'Antonio

Public domainThe Met
The Hanlons in their Laughable Parisian Absurdity Le Voyage En Suisse publisher by Forbes Lithograph Manufacturing Company and probably created by Joseph E. Baker, by Forbes Lithograph Manufacturing Company

The Hanlons in their Laughable Parisian Absurdity Le Voyage En Suisse publisher by Forbes Lithograph Manufacturing Company and probably created by Joseph E. Baker

Forbes Lithograph Manufacturing Company · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Whalers, by Joseph Mallord William Turner

Whalers

Joseph Mallord William Turner · ca. 1845

Public domainThe Met
Echeveria pumila var. glauca (Baker) E. Walther

Echeveria pumila var. glauca (Baker) E. Walther

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Sep 1903

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
[Merchants' Carnival Portrait: Hall & Atwood Attorneys, Granville, New York], by Baker

[Merchants' Carnival Portrait: Hall & Atwood Attorneys, Granville, New York]

Baker · 1880s–1890s

Public domainThe Met
Echeveria pumila var. glauca (Baker) E. Walther

Echeveria pumila var. glauca (Baker) E. Walther

Artist not stated in the record · 22 Aug 1903

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Violino Piccolo, by Joseph Hill

Violino Piccolo

Joseph Hill · ca. 1750

Public domainThe Met
Tillandsia achyrostachys É. Morren ex Baker var. achyrostachys

Tillandsia achyrostachys É. Morren ex Baker var. achyrostachys

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Sep 1903

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bronze mirror with a support in the form of a draped woman

Bronze mirror with a support in the form of a draped woman

Artist not stated in the record · mid-5th century BCE

Public domainThe Met
Tillandsia achyrostachys É. Morren ex Baker var. achyrostachys

Tillandsia achyrostachys É. Morren ex Baker var. achyrostachys

Artist not stated in the record · 27 Aug 1903

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgil's Tomb by Moonlight, with Silius Italicus Declaiming, by Joseph Wright (Wright of Derby)

Virgil's Tomb by Moonlight, with Silius Italicus Declaiming

Joseph Wright (Wright of Derby) · 1779

Public domainThe Met
Echeveria pumila var. glauca (Baker) E. Walther

Echeveria pumila var. glauca (Baker) E. Walther

Artist not stated in the record · 22 Jul 1905

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. 2642 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 1222834 matched · 40 examined · 9 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 2026-09-01 09:31 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.