Follow the Fleet Lobby Card - Astaire, Rogers - RARE!

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An image search of the web for "Follow the Fleet" (1936) lobby cards fails to turn up a match for this one, so I'm fairly confident it's a rare item. Unfortunately, when my mother put it in her scrapbook 70-odd years ago, she cut the border off to make it fit. The good news is, thanks to the scrapbook protecting it from the light, the colors are probably as vibrant as the day she swiped it from the theater in Livingston, Montana. I've left it as is, pasted to the page, since I don't have the conservator skills to be sure I could remove it without harming it.An image search of the web for "Follow the Fleet" (1936) lobby cards fails to turn up a match for this one, so I'm fairly confident it's a rare item. Unfortunately, when my mother put it in her scrapbook 70-odd years ago, she cut the border off to make it fit. The good news is, thanks to the scrapbook protecting it from the light, the colors are probably as vibrant as the day she swiped it from the theater in Livingston, Montana. I've left it as is, pasted to the page, since I don't have the conservator skills to be sure I could remove it without harming it. UPDATE 10/17/09: Comparing the original to the scan I uploaded, I noticed the scanner considerably overemphasizes the wrinkles from the glue used to paste it into the book, especially in Fred's uniform. Took a photo of it read more