Postcard Depicting Bobker’s Twelve Sons of the Desert Performers

A blank postcard of “Bobker’s Twelve Sons of the Desert in a Novelty Act.” This is an example from 1912 of an Arab troupe of entertainers not run by Arabs. The child is George Hamid with his cousins

George founded the circus as seen in the Wirth and Hamid talent catalogue.

Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies

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