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. 17 shown for “Robert Baker” — 64 records examined, 38 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 15:54 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.
[Merchants' Carnival Portrait: Hall & Atwood Attorneys, Granville, New York], by Baker

[Merchants' Carnival Portrait: Hall & Atwood Attorneys, Granville, New York]

Baker · 1880s–1890s

Public domainThe Met
Sanctuary of Dreams, by Robert P. Baker, born London, England 1886-died Hyannis, MA 1940

Sanctuary of Dreams

Robert P. Baker, born London, England 1886-died Hyannis, MA 1940 · ca. 1919

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Trade Card for Literary Souvenir, by Robert Baker

Trade Card for Literary Souvenir

Robert Baker · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
War Psychology, by Robert P. Baker, born London, England 1886-died Hyannis, MA 1940

War Psychology

Robert P. Baker, born London, England 1886-died Hyannis, MA 1940 · ca. 1918-1919

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
Myotis nigricans nigricans

Myotis nigricans nigricans

Artist not stated in the record · 11 May 1986

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece), by Robert Campin

Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece)

Robert Campin · ca. 1427–32

Public domainThe Met
Peromyscus maniculatus argentatus

Peromyscus maniculatus argentatus

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Jul 1907

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two-handled Bowl, by Cornelius Kierstede

Two-handled Bowl

Cornelius Kierstede · 1700–1710

Public domainThe Met
Bustle

Bustle

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1885

Public domainThe Met
Figures in One of Michelangelo's Niches on the Apse of St. Peter's, Rome, by Hubert Robert

Figures in One of Michelangelo's Niches on the Apse of St. Peter's, Rome

Hubert Robert · ca. 1763

Public domainThe Met
Side chair

Side chair

Artist not stated in the record · 1690–1710

Public domainThe Met
Figures in a Roman Arcade, by Hubert Robert

Figures in a Roman Arcade

Hubert Robert · 1763

Public domainThe Met
Joseph Interpreting the Dreams of Pharoah's Chief Butler and Baker, by Jusepe de Ribera (called Lo Spagnoletto)

Joseph Interpreting the Dreams of Pharoah's Chief Butler and Baker

Jusepe de Ribera (called Lo Spagnoletto) · 1766–67

Public domainThe Met
Dichanthelium commutatum (Schult.) Gould

Dichanthelium commutatum (Schult.) Gould

Artist not stated in the record · 22 Sep 1898

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wilson and His Cabinet, by Harris & Ewing Studio, active 1905 - 1977

Wilson and His Cabinet

Harris & Ewing Studio, active 1905 - 1977 · c. 1916

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pseudelephantopus spicatus (Juss. ex Aubl.) C.F. Baker

Pseudelephantopus spicatus (Juss. ex Aubl.) C.F. Baker

Artist not stated in the record · 18 Mar 1998

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. 104 matched · 24 examined · 14 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.10 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 196325 matched · 40 examined · 24 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.