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
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
L'Arlésienne: Madame Joseph-Michel Ginoux (Marie Julien, 1848–1911)
Vincent van Gogh · 1888–89

Heel and Toe
Armstrong and Company · 1873

Joseph Interpreting the Dreams of His Fellow Prisoners
Master of the Story of Joseph

The March of Miles Standish
Armstrong and Company · 1873

Venice, from the Porch of Madonna della Salute
Joseph Mallord William Turner · ca. 1835

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.

The Rebuke of Adam and Eve
Charles Joseph Natoire · 1740

Emma Abbott Grand Opera Company
Baker, Joseph E. · n.d.

Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)
Joseph Siffred Duplessis · 1778

Arms of the United States of America by Joseph Edward Baker and John Henry Bufford
Artist not stated in the record · 1864

Hunting Sword with Scabbard
Joseph Deutschmann · ca. 1740

Florence
Baker, Joseph E. · n.d.

The Story of Joseph
Biagio d'Antonio

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.

Whalers
Joseph Mallord William Turner · ca. 1845

Echeveria pumila var. glauca (Baker) E. Walther
Artist not stated in the record · 19 Sep 1903
![[Merchants' Carnival Portrait: Hall & Atwood Attorneys, Granville, New York], by Baker](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDP-43423-333.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[Merchants' Carnival Portrait: Hall & Atwood Attorneys, Granville, New York]
Baker · 1880s–1890s

Echeveria pumila var. glauca (Baker) E. Walther
Artist not stated in the record · 22 Aug 1903

Violino Piccolo
Joseph Hill · ca. 1750

Tillandsia achyrostachys É. Morren ex Baker var. achyrostachys
Artist not stated in the record · 9 Sep 1903

Bronze mirror with a support in the form of a draped woman
Artist not stated in the record · mid-5th century BCE

Tillandsia achyrostachys É. Morren ex Baker var. achyrostachys
Artist not stated in the record · 27 Aug 1903

Virgil's Tomb by Moonlight, with Silius Italicus Declaiming
Joseph Wright (Wright of Derby) · 1779

Echeveria pumila var. glauca (Baker) E. Walther
Artist not stated in the record · 22 Jul 1905
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.