Editing Wallet (section)

===19th century===
[[File:Pouch or wallet (AM 610060-3).jpg|thumb|right|200px|A mid-19th century wallet or pouch made of leather]]
In addition to money or currency, a wallet would also be used for carrying dried meat, victuals, "treasures", and "things not to be exposed". Wallets originally were used by early Industrial Americans. It was considered "semi-civilized" in 19th century America to carry one's wallet on one's belt. At this time, carrying goods or a wallet in one's pocket was considered uncivilized and uncommon.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Mason|first=Otis T.|author-link=Otis Tufton Mason|title=The Beginnings of the Carrying Industry|journal=[[American Anthropologist]]|date=January 1889|volume=A2|issue=1|pages=21–46|doi=10.1525/aa.1889.2.1.02a00030|doi-access=free}}</ref>

In [[Spain]], a wallet was a case for [[Smoking#Substances and equipment|smoking paraphernalia]]: "Every man would carry a small sheaf of white paper in addition to a small leather wallet which would contain a flint and steel along with a small quantity of so-called ''yesca'', being a dried vegetable fibre which a spark would instantly ignite."<ref>{{cite book|last=Cushing|first=Caroline E. W.|title=Letters: Descriptive of Public Monuments, Scenery & Manners in France & Spain|year=1832|volume=2|chapter=Letter XIV|publisher=Allen|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Jwg_AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA169|location=Newburyport, MA|oclc=8401193|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170507031935/https://books.google.com/books?id=Jwg_AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA169|archive-date=2017-05-07}}</ref>