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Can be part of a [[Personal Effects Reveal]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
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== Newspaper Comics ==
* ''[[Garfield]]'': "Only Jon would keep the picture of the girl that came with the wallet."
== Western Animation ==
* ''[[6teen]]'' does this on the Christmas special, to show how lonely Ron the mall cop is.
* In ''[[Scooby Doo Mystery Inc]]'', it's revealed that the photo of Fred's mother came from a magazine.
* An episode of ''[[Tiny Toons]]'' has Hampton trying to cook a lobster. The lobster begs, "I've got a family," and shows some pictures. Hampton glares and says, "I've got the
== Real Life ==
* Increasingly unlikely in real life, as the pictures included with frames these days often act as the product label, having [[Captain Obvious|"Picture Frame"]] and UPC codes on them.
* Not a picture, but a sample Social Security Card that came with wallets made by the E.H. Ferree company starting in 1938. A company officer thought it would be clever to use his secretary's ''real'' Social Security number -- 078-05-1120 -- on it. Unbelievably, thousands of people who bought those wallets [[Too Dumb to Live|thought they'd automatically been issued a SS card with their purchase]] and used that number as their own. The Social Security Administration caught on a few years later and voided the number, but as late as 1977 there were still people using it. You can read about it at [https://www.ssa.gov/history/ssn/misused.html the SSA's website] or at [https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-woolworth-card/ Snopes.com].
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