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Object Description
| Brief description | Painted signboard from the Jordet farm, Modena, Buffalo County, 1896. |
| Object name | Signboard |
| Alternate object name | Plaque |
| Date | 1896 |
| Dimensions | 23 1/8"H x 28 7/8"W x 2 1/4"D |
| Materials and techniques | Painted wood |
| Original location | Modena, Buffalo County, Wisconsin |
| Current location | Alma, Buffalo County, Wisconsin |
| Description | Signboard fashioned from a single large board framed with two vertical strips of wood fastened to right and left edges with small rectangular wrought nails. The inscription, in Norwegian, is hand-lettered in black paint. The first line prominently features the name "Knut R. Jordet" in ornate lettering; the final line provides a place and date: "Modena 4 December 1896." Heavy wear and weathering all over. |
| History | This signboard was acquired from the Jordet farmstead near the Town of Modena, Buffalo County, Wisconsin. According to The History of Buffalo and Pepin Counties (1919), Knut Jordet (d. 1906) and wife Ollea Knuteson (d. 1917) left Norway for America in 1860 or 1861. After four years in the Town of Springdale, Dane County, Wisconsin, they settled permanently in the Town of Modena. This relocation to Buffalo County is commemorated in the signboard, which is inscribed with the date 1865. The Jordet's oldest son, also Knut, was born in 1866 and took over the family farm around 1896. The second date on the plaque may commemorate the passing of the farmstead to the second generation of the Jordet family in Wisconsin. |
| Sources | Franklyn Curtiss-Wedge, History of Buffalo and Pepin Counties (Winona, MN: H. C. Cooper, Jr. and Co., 1919), p. 525. |
| Related objects | A cupboard made for the Jordet family by a local Norwegian-American craftsman is among the collections of the Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum (object # 1991.008.001): http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/u?/wda,2024 |
| Owner | Buffalo County Historical Society |
| Rights | (c) 2009 by the Buffalo County Historical Society. Contact the owner for more information. http://bchsonline.com/ |
| Digital collection | Wisconsin Decorative Arts Database |
| Digital identifier | BU001 |
| Digital format | XML |
| Type | Physical object |
| Keywords | Signboard; Signs (declatory or advertising artifacts); Information forms; Visual and verbal communication |
| Date digitized | 2011-07-04 |
| Date modified | 2011-07-04 |
Description
| Object name | Signboard: full view |
| Rights | (c) 2009 by the Buffalo County Historical Society. Contact the owner for more information. http://bchsonline.com/ |
| Digital collection | Wisconsin Decorative Arts Database |
| Digital identifier | BU001a |
| Digital format | image/jpeg |
| Type | Physical object |
| Date digitized | 2009-12-21 |
| Date modified | 2009-12-21 |
