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
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Cann
George Baker · ca. 1825

Petroleum V. Nasby, Mark Twain and Josh Billings
George M. Baker · 1869

Stephen Thorn
George Augustus Baker Sr. · 1818

George Washington
Robert Edge Pine, 1730 - 18 Nov 1788 · 1785

Mary Crosby
George Augustus Baker Jr. · 1840

John Kensett
Frederick W. Halpin, 1805 - 1880 · 1869

John F. Kensett
George Augustus Baker Jr. · 1875

George Brinton McClellan
Joseph Edward Baker, 1835 - 1914 · 1861

Head of a Woman (from McGuire Scrapbook)
George Augustus Baker Jr.

Amomum curtisii (Baker) Škornick. & Hlavatá
Artist not stated in the record · 9 May 2001

Head of a Girl (from McGuire Scrapbook)
George Augustus Baker Jr.

Curcuma involucrata (King ex Baker) Škornick.
Artist not stated in the record · 16 May 2002

Sketches of Heads (from McGuire Scrapbook)
George Augustus Baker Jr. · 1841

Terpsichore eggersii (Baker ex Hook.) A.R. Sm.
Artist not stated in the record · 5 Jun 1965

Head of a Man Wearing a Helmet (from McGuire Scrapbook)
George Augustus Baker Jr.

Portulaca oleracea subsp. granulatostellulata (Poelln.) Danin & H.G. Baker
Artist not stated in the record · 5 Sep 1958

Mrs. William Loring Andrews
George Augustus Baker Jr. · 1861–63
Hibiscus grandidieri var. phanerandus (Baker) Hochr.
Artist not stated in the record · 18 May 1998

Mummy Cloth Fragment of Nesitanebtasheru
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1000–979 BCE

Globba cernua Baker
Artist not stated in the record · 16 Oct 1999

Mummy Cloth Fragment of Nesitanebtasheru
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1000–979 BCE

Guzmania megastachya (Baker) Mez
Artist not stated in the record · Feb 1961

Mummy Cloth Fragment of Nesitanebtasheru
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1000–979 BCE

Chrysanthemum morifolium 'Marion Baker'
Artist not stated in the record · 13 Nov 1945
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.