Harry Gordon Selfridge
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Harry Gordon Selfridge Sr. was an American retail magnate who founded the London-based department store Selfridges. The early years of his leadership led to his becoming one of the wealthiest and most
Selfridge c. 1910
Selfridge circa 1880
Original Oxford Street store in London
Rose Selfridge, circa 1910
Dolly Sisters
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Rosie Dolly and Jenny Dolly, known professionally as The Dolly Sisters, were Hungarian-American identical twin dancers, singers and actresses, popular in vaudeville and theatre during the 1910s and '2
Harry Gordon Selfridge
…pandemic of 1918; his mother, who lived with them, died in 1924. As a widower, Selfridge had numerous liaisons, including those with the celebrated Dolly Sisters and the divorcée Syrie Barnardo Wellcome, who would later become better known as the decorator Syrie Maugham. He also began and maintained a busy social…
Rosie in 1915
Jenny c. 1914
Onstage (center) at the Ziegfeld Follies. Their friend Olive Thomas can be seen just above the leftmost Dolly Sister
Grave of Jenny and Rosie, "The Dolly Sisters", in the Great Mausoleum at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, California.