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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 “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave” — 64 records examined, 23 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 12:02 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Scenes from the Life of Saint Augustine of Hippo
Master of Saint Augustine · ca. 1490
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
Artist not stated in the record · 1845
Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece)
Robert Campin · ca. 1427–32
Portrait of Frederick Douglass (1817?-1895)
Fassett, S. M (Samuel Montague) · 1878
The Adoration of the Shepherds
Andrea Mantegna · shortly after 1450
Frederick Douglass
Unidentified Artist · c. 1845
The Crucifixion
Master of the Codex of Saint George · ca. 1330–35
Photographic souvenir of the Frederick Douglass Memorial Home in Anacostia, D.C.
Unidentified · ca. 1920
The Adoration of the Magi
Giotto di Bondone · possibly ca. 1320
Cabinet card of Frederick Douglass with his grandson Joseph Douglass
Artist not stated in the record · May 10, 1894
The Investiture of Bishop Harold as Duke of Franconia
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · ca. 1751–52
A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa
Artist not stated in the record · 1798
The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John
Hendrick ter Brugghen · ca. 1624–25
Button from The Frederick Douglass Memorial Hospital and Training School
Artist not stated in the record · April 1909
The Abduction of Rebecca
Eugène Delacroix · 1846
The Fifteenth Amendment Celebrated May 19th, 1870
Kelly, Thomas · 1870
Young Ladies of the Village
Gustave Courbet · 1851–52
Frederick Douglass
C. M. Battey, American, 1873 - 1927 · ca. 1895
The Triumph of Marius
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1729
Carte-de-visite of Frederick Douglass
Artist not stated in the record · 1862 - 1870
The Triumph of Fame; (reverse) Impresa of the Medici Family and Arms of the Medici and Tornabuoni Families
Giovanni di ser Giovanni Guidi (called Scheggia) · ca. 1449
Letter written by John Brown and Frederick Douglass to Brown's wife and children
Artist not stated in the record · January 30, 1858
Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560)
Hans Holbein the Younger · 1532
Frederick Douglass' Paper
Artist not stated in the record · July 28, 1854
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. 522 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 3025907 matched · 40 examined · 20 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 12:02 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.