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 “Joseph Edward Baker, 1835 - 1914” — 59 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 15:54 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Venice, from the Porch of Madonna della Salute
Joseph Mallord William Turner · ca. 1835

John Greenleaf Whittier
Joseph Edward Baker, 1835 - 1914 · 1877

L'Arlésienne: Madame Joseph-Michel Ginoux (Marie Julien, 1848–1911)
Vincent van Gogh · 1888–89

William J. Le Moyne
Joseph Edward Baker, 1835 - 1914 · 1887-88

The Fort of L'Esseillon, Val de la Maurienne, France
Joseph Mallord William Turner · 1835–36

Horace Greeley
Joseph Edward Baker, 1835 - 1914 · 1872

CITY HALL NEW YORK.
Charles Meigh · ca. 1835–ca. 1849

Out of Bondage
Joseph Edward Baker, 1835 - 1914 · c. 1877

Fair Mount/ near/ Philadelphia
Joseph Stubbs · ca. 1824–ca. 1836

William Haines Lytle
Joseph Edward Baker, 1835 - 1914 · c. 1864

A VIEW/ NEAR/ PHILADELPHIA
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830–ca. 1835

William Haines Lytle
Joseph Edward Baker, 1835 - 1914 · 1864

City Hall / New York
Job & John Jackson · ca. 1831–ca. 1835

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Joseph Edward Baker, 1835 - 1914 · 1876

The/ Race Bridge/ Philadelphia/ JACKSONS WARRANTED
Job & John Jackson · ca. 1831–ca. 1835

William Lloyd Garrison
Joseph Edward Baker, 1835 - 1914 · 1864

Salome
Henri Regnault · 1870

Irvin McDowell
Joseph Edward Baker, 1835 - 1914 · 1861

Madame Grand (Noël Catherine Vorlée, 1761–1835)
Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun · 1783

Horace Mann
Joseph Edward Baker, 1835 - 1914 · c. 1860
![[Boston State House], by Enoch Wood & Sons](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fad%2Fweb-large%2F24445.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[Boston State House]
Enoch Wood & Sons · ca. 1818–ca. 1846

Edward Everett
Joseph Edward Baker, 1835 - 1914 · 1865

NEW.YORK./ BATTERY.
Ralph Stevenson · ca. 1825–ca. 1832

Isaac Ingalls Stevens
Joseph Edward Baker, 1835 - 1914 · c. 1861
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. 19 matched · 19 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. 318230 matched · 40 examined · 11 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 15:54 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.