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 “Martha Susan 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.
Elizabeth Humphrey, by Martha Susan Baker

Elizabeth Humphrey

Martha Susan Baker · 1899

Public domainThe Met
Twilight no. 2 1898, by Martha Susan Baker, born Evansville, IN 1871-died Chicago, IL 1911

Twilight no. 2 1898

Martha Susan Baker, born Evansville, IN 1871-died Chicago, IL 1911 · 1898

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Grand Piano, by Bartolomeo Cristofori

Grand Piano

Bartolomeo Cristofori · 1720

Public domainThe Met
Selaginella subcaulescens Baker

Selaginella subcaulescens Baker

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Jun 1950

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Terracotta lekythos (oil flask), by Amasis Painter

Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)

Amasis Painter · ca. 550–530 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Broadside for an auction of enslaved persons at the Charleston courthouse, by Unidentified

Broadside for an auction of enslaved persons at the Charleston courthouse

Unidentified · 1859

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mary, Queen of Scots going forth to execution, plate X from "Friendship's Offering: A Literary Album, and Christmas and New Year's Present", by Robert Baker

Mary, Queen of Scots going forth to execution, plate X from "Friendship's Offering: A Literary Album, and Christmas and New Year's Present"

Robert Baker · 1831

Public domainThe Met
Cerion uva knipensis

Cerion uva knipensis

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Jun 2011

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chatelaine, by Gorham Manufacturing Company

Chatelaine

Gorham Manufacturing Company · 1887

Public domainThe Met
Viola utahensis M.S. Baker & J.C. Clausen

Viola utahensis M.S. Baker & J.C. Clausen

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Apr 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Double Ring, by Marcus and Co.

Double Ring

Marcus and Co. · ca. 1895

Public domainThe Met
Asplenium pearcei Baker

Asplenium pearcei Baker

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Mar 1988

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pair of Earrings with Snap-on Covers

Pair of Earrings with Snap-on Covers

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1882–85

Public domainThe Met
Piptocarpha poeppigiana (DC.) Baker

Piptocarpha poeppigiana (DC.) Baker

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Aug 1980

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Washington Family: George Washington, His Lady, and her Two Grandchildren by the Name of Custis–George Washington, Son Epouse, et Ses Deux petits Enfants du Nom de Custis, by Edward Savage

The Washington Family: George Washington, His Lady, and her Two Grandchildren by the Name of Custis–George Washington, Son Epouse, et Ses Deux petits Enfants du Nom de Custis

Edward Savage · March 10, 1798

Public domainThe Met
Ophryosporus piquerioides (DC.) Benth. ex Baker

Ophryosporus piquerioides (DC.) Benth. ex Baker

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Aug 1980

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Watson and the Shark, by John Singleton Copley

Watson and the Shark

John Singleton Copley · ca. 1778

Public domainThe Met
Ophryosporus piquerioides (DC.) Benth. ex Baker

Ophryosporus piquerioides (DC.) Benth. ex Baker

Artist not stated in the record · 13 Aug 1980

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ear ornament, by Wari artist(s)

Ear ornament

Wari artist(s) · 650–1000 CE

Public domainThe Met
Adiantum olivaceum Baker

Adiantum olivaceum Baker

Artist not stated in the record · 22 Feb 1996

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ear ornament, by Wari artist(s)

Ear ornament

Wari artist(s) · 650–1000 CE

Public domainThe Met
Mary Baker Eddy, by Luella Varney Serrao, 11 Aug 1865 - after 1935

Mary Baker Eddy

Luella Varney Serrao, 11 Aug 1865 - after 1935 · Spring 1889

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Young Woman with a Lute, by Johannes Vermeer

Young Woman with a Lute

Johannes Vermeer · ca. 1662–63

Public domainThe Met
Pteris tripartita Sw.

Pteris tripartita Sw.

Artist not stated in the record · May 1929 to Jul 1929

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. 87 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 57194 matched · 40 examined · 25 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.