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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 “Frederick Douglass' Paper” — 64 records examined, 18 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 13:47 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Pair of Four-Barreled Turnover Percussion Pistols of Henry Pelham Fiennes Pelham-Clinton, 4th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne (1785–1851), with Pair of Box-Lock Turn-Off Pocket Pistols, Case, and Accessories
James Purdey the Elder · 1831
Frederick Douglass' Paper
Artist not stated in the record · July 28, 1854
Over-and-Under Flintlock Pocket Pistol of the Hughes of Gwerclas Family with Case and Accessories
Joseph Egg · ca. 1815–20
The North Star, Vol. I No. 37
The North Star, American, 1847 - 1859 · September 8, 1848
Frederick Douglass
George Kendall Warren · 1876
Frederick Douglass
Unidentified Artist (Engraver) · April 21, 1877
Night Rain at the Double-Shelf Stand, from the series Eight Parlor Views (Zashiki hakkei)
Suzuki Harunobu · ca. 1766
Frederick Douglass
Unidentified Artist · 1883
Casket
Michel Redlin · ca. 1680
Frederick Douglass
Unidentified Artist · c. 1860
General Melancthon S. Wade
James Presley Ball, Sr. · ca. 1862
Button from The Frederick Douglass Memorial Hospital and Training School
Artist not stated in the record · April 1909
Vase
Frederick Shirley · ca. 1878
Cabinet card of Frederick Douglass with his grandson Joseph Douglass
Artist not stated in the record · May 10, 1894
Variations in Violet and Grey—Market Place, Dieppe
James McNeill Whistler · 1885
Carte-de-visite of Frederick Douglass
Artist not stated in the record · 1862 - 1870
Frederick Douglass
Unknown · ca. 1855
Letter Signed by Frederick Douglass on Freedmen's Savings Bank letterhead
Artist not stated in the record · 1874
Frederick Langenheim
W. & F. Langenheim · ca. 1848–50
Frederick Douglass
E. W. Bouvé Lithography Co. · 1845
Frederick Langenheim
W. & F. Langenheim · ca. 1850–51
Frederick Douglass
Alexander Hay Ritchie, 1822 - 1895 · ca. 1875
Frederick Langenheim Looking at Talbotypes
W. & F. Langenheim · ca. 1849–51
Frederick Douglass
C. M. Battey, American, 1873 - 1927 · ca. 1895
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. 822 matched · 24 examined · 8 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. 207002 matched · 40 examined · 10 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 2026-09-06 13:47 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.