OpenTwo 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. 14 shown for “Baton” — 64 records examined, 46 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 07:31 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Baton
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century
Baton used by Dr. Issac Greggs with The Human Jukebox marching band
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2000
Baton
Koehler and Son · 1881
Conductor's baton used by James DePreist
Unidentified · 1965-2013
Baton
Artist not stated in the record · 1855
Baton
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
Baton Handle or Penis Sheath (?)
Artist not stated in the record · 1st–3rd century
Signaling Baton (Saihai) and Storage Box
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
Gordon, A Runaway Mississippi Slave, or "The Scourged Back"
McPherson & Oliver · April 2, 1863
Baton (?)
Artist not stated in the record · before 16th century
Baton (Bian)
Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century
Large Dish (tagliere): Pope Leo X presenting a baton to Federigo II Gonzaga, marquis of Mantua, on his appointment as captain general of the Church in 1521.
Nicola da Urbino · ca. 1525–30
Iron Clad "Essex," Baton Rouge, Louisiana
McPherson & Oliver · May 1863
Our Scouts and Guides in 1863 at Baton Rouge, Louisiana
McPherson & Oliver · 1863
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. 130 matched · 24 examined · 8 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. 1988 matched · 40 examined · 38 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.2 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-04 07:31 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.