Badkar

The subject is part of a testamentary gift for Bohusläns museum 14 March 1990, Irma Bohlin’s estate. The gift includes a toy collection, mainly dolls with clothes and a collection of photographs: Items UM023791 - UM023839 and photographs UMFA53253: 0001 - UMFA53253: 0023. The material has been owned by sisters Irma (1915 - 1990) and Rosa Bohlin (1915 - 1989), born and dead in Norum parish in Stenungsund, Bohuslän. The sisters were twins and unmarried. The father, the carpenter, later the master builder Alfred Abrahamsson Bohlin (1865 1937) and Sofia Elofsson (1866 1904) had the children Thure Washington (1899 1961) and Isabella Linnea Gustava Bella (1902 1988). The family lived in Uddevalla and the children were born here. When Alfred became a widow, he and the children moved to Alfred’s mother, the widow Gustava Andreasdotter (born 1840) and his unmarried sister Julia Karolina Abrahamsdotter (1873 - 1979), a seamstress. Alfred Bohlin and the children also lived for a time with photographer Ingeborg Enander whose studio he also built for. Alfred Bohlin married Gerda Matilda Patriksdotter in 1911 (1886 1958) and had the children Alfhild Viktoria Bohlin (1912-07-22 1912-07-25), Östen Bohlin (1913 1929), Rosa Margareta Bohlin (1915-10-28 1989-12-01) and Irma Hellevie Bohlin (1915-10-28 1990-01-08). The family lived in the house Alphyddan in Stenungsund, which Alfred Bohlin built. Rosa and Irma continued to live in the house after the parents' death. When the house was to be demolished, they instead rented a neighboring house of Stenungsund municipality on North Road 24 in Stenungsund. Rosa and Irma were to the profession of seamstress shoes and most of them were wearing clothes as well as curtains and so on to public premises by order of the municipality. The toys themselves have used and made the accessories. In the museum’s photo collection there are several photographs of members from the Bohlin family taken by Ingeborg Enander at different times, some of which are part of this gift.