The U.S. Capitol Visitor Center preserves a photograph stating that breadlines appeared in cities across the United States during the Great Depression of the 1930s. The image belongs to the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. This record does not identify the specific city, exact date, number of people or waiting time, so those details cannot responsibly be added. Its evidence is narrower but unmistakable: “breadline” referred to a physical queue for food, not merely a metaphor for hardship. Economic statistics describe unemployment and collapse at national scale; the photograph records how that collapse was converted into an order for receiving a portion of bread. The anonymity of the location also matters. Rather than documenting an exceptional queue in one city, the exhibit presents breadlines as a repeated urban feature of the decade.