Clas Ohlson company was founded in 1918 by the technically minded Clas Ohlson (1895–1979), as a mail order business based in the Swedish village of Insjön, Dalarna. Initially, only manuals and technical literature were sold, thus allowing people who lived in rural communities to obtain literature that would otherwise be unavailable. He opened his first shop in Insjön in 1926, but it was not until 1989, when the company opened a store in a shopping centre in central Stockholm, that it expanded into the retail business. The first store outside Sweden was opened 1991 in Oslo in Norway and in 1999, the
Elisabeth Ohlson Wallin secular humanism. The Eskilstuna Art Museum held an Ohlson retrospective in 2015, covering her work from 1988 through 2012. Elisabeth Ohlson Wallin Elisabeth Ohlson (born 1961) is a Swedish photographer and an artist. In her works she often photographs representatives of sexual minorities. Ohlson, a lesbian, is most noted for her exhibition "Ecce homo" which portrayed Jesus among homosexuals and transvestites. The scenes were modern versions of stories of the New Testament, such as Jesus riding a bicycle in a gay parade like in the Triumphal entry he rode to town with a donkey. With her works, Ohlson has wanted