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 “George Baker” — 64 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 13:27 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.
Cann, by George Baker

Cann

George Baker · ca. 1825

Public domainThe Met
Petroleum V. Nasby, Mark Twain and Josh Billings, by George M. Baker

Petroleum V. Nasby, Mark Twain and Josh Billings

George M. Baker · 1869

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stephen Thorn, by George Augustus Baker Sr.

Stephen Thorn

George Augustus Baker Sr. · 1818

Public domainThe Met
George Washington, by Robert Edge Pine, 1730 - 18 Nov 1788

George Washington

Robert Edge Pine, 1730 - 18 Nov 1788 · 1785

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mary Crosby, by George Augustus Baker Jr.

Mary Crosby

George Augustus Baker Jr. · 1840

Public domainThe Met
John Kensett, by Frederick W. Halpin, 1805 - 1880

John Kensett

Frederick W. Halpin, 1805 - 1880 · 1869

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
John F. Kensett, by George Augustus Baker Jr.

John F. Kensett

George Augustus Baker Jr. · 1875

Public domainThe Met
George Brinton McClellan, by Joseph Edward Baker, 1835 - 1914

George Brinton McClellan

Joseph Edward Baker, 1835 - 1914 · 1861

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head of a Woman (from McGuire Scrapbook), by George Augustus Baker Jr.

Head of a Woman (from McGuire Scrapbook)

George Augustus Baker Jr.

Public domainThe Met
Amomum curtisii (Baker) Škornick. & Hlavatá

Amomum curtisii (Baker) Škornick. & Hlavatá

Artist not stated in the record · 9 May 2001

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head of a Girl (from McGuire Scrapbook), by George Augustus Baker Jr.

Head of a Girl (from McGuire Scrapbook)

George Augustus Baker Jr.

Public domainThe Met
Curcuma involucrata (King ex Baker) Škornick.

Curcuma involucrata (King ex Baker) Škornick.

Artist not stated in the record · 16 May 2002

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sketches of Heads (from McGuire Scrapbook), by George Augustus Baker Jr.

Sketches of Heads (from McGuire Scrapbook)

George Augustus Baker Jr. · 1841

Public domainThe Met
Terpsichore eggersii (Baker ex Hook.) A.R. Sm.

Terpsichore eggersii (Baker ex Hook.) A.R. Sm.

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Jun 1965

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head of a Man Wearing a Helmet (from McGuire Scrapbook), by George Augustus Baker Jr.

Head of a Man Wearing a Helmet (from McGuire Scrapbook)

George Augustus Baker Jr.

Public domainThe Met
Portulaca oleracea subsp. granulatostellulata (Poelln.) Danin & H.G. Baker

Portulaca oleracea subsp. granulatostellulata (Poelln.) Danin & H.G. Baker

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Sep 1958

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mrs. William Loring Andrews, by George Augustus Baker Jr.

Mrs. William Loring Andrews

George Augustus Baker Jr. · 1861–63

Public domainThe Met
Hibiscus grandidieri var. phanerandus (Baker) Hochr.

Hibiscus grandidieri var. phanerandus (Baker) Hochr.

Artist not stated in the record · 18 May 1998

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mummy Cloth Fragment of Nesitanebtasheru

Mummy Cloth Fragment of Nesitanebtasheru

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1000–979 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Globba cernua Baker

Globba cernua Baker

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Oct 1999

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mummy Cloth Fragment of Nesitanebtasheru

Mummy Cloth Fragment of Nesitanebtasheru

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1000–979 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Guzmania megastachya (Baker) Mez

Guzmania megastachya (Baker) Mez

Artist not stated in the record · Feb 1961

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mummy Cloth Fragment of Nesitanebtasheru

Mummy Cloth Fragment of Nesitanebtasheru

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1000–979 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Chrysanthemum morifolium 'Marion Baker'

Chrysanthemum morifolium 'Marion Baker'

Artist not stated in the record · 13 Nov 1945

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. 987 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. 234263 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 13:27 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.