Nancy Vincent McClelland

From Hannah's Treasures - Vintage Wallpaper

Known for her immense contributions to interior design, education, and historic preservation, Nancy Vincent McClelland (b. 1877- d. 1959) designed and reproduced hundreds of historic American wallpapers in her lifetime. Most of her papers were hand-printed using silk screen methods, and many of them were adapted from centuries-old designs.  Each was printed with the highest quality materials and considered to be the premier papers of their time.

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"... [an] extraordinary woman named Nancy Vincent McClelland who wrote a version in an article titled "A Mystery of the Paris Exposition"€ in The Philadelphia Inquirer dated November 14, 1897 [VLPI]. In that year McClelland graduated from Vassar and began working for The Philadelphia Press, later going on to become a noteworthy advertising writer in the 1910s and a famous interior decorator by the 1930s. ..."

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• Ancestry.com. U.S. Passport Applications, 1795-1925 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2007. "Birth Date: 20 Nov 1877 Birth Place: Poughkeepsie, New York"
• page 86 of "Amos Richardson of Boston and Stonington: With a Contribution to the History of His Descendants and the Allied Families of Gilbert, Edwards, Yarrington, and Rust." Rosell Lewellyn Richardson. Author, 1906 - 147 pages:
  • "Mary, third and youngest child of Rev. Leonard M. and Nancy Morgan (Richardson) Vincent, married first, Rev. James F. McClelland in 1875; second, Joseph Granville West in 1894. She had three children: Nancy McClelland (Vassar, '97), James McClelland and Mary McClelland."
• "Connecticut Death Index, 1949-2001," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VZ5S-6MH : accessed 4 November 2015), Nancy Mcclelland, 01 Oct 1959; from "Connecticut Death Index, 1949-2001," database, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : 2003); citing Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, Connecticut Department of Health, Hartfort.
• Find A Grave Memorial# 120071279
• LibraryThing books listing
• Metropolitan Museum of Art "180 rolls of reproductions of early wallpaper by Nancy McClelland" Designer: Nancy Vincent McClelland (American, Poughkeepsie, New York 1877–1959)
• "McCllelland" in The Cooper Hewitt Museum database
• ASID The Nancy Vincent McClelland Merit Award pays tribute to the work and accomplishments of Nancy Vincent McClelland, an ardent advocate for professional recognition in the interior design field and the first woman president of the American Institute of Decorators (now ASID), from 1941 to 1944.

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