Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Varying Form of Title: | History Makers video oral history with Philip Merrill
Philip Merrill
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| Other authors / contributors: | Merrill, Philip J., interviewee.
Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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| Sound characteristics: | digital
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| Digital file characteristics: | video file
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| Notes: | Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Recorded Baltimore, Maryland 2013 August 7.
Vendor-supplied metadata.
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| Summary: | Historian and appraiser Philip J. Merrill was born in 1962 in Baltimore, Maryland. He was one of two African American students in his graduating class of 1981 at the Friends School of Baltimore. Merrill graduated from Loyola University in Maryland in 1985. In 1994, he founded Nanny Jack & Company, an archives and consulting agency specializing in African American memorabilia. From 1996 to 2001, Merrill was an appraiser for television show Antiques Roadshow, where he created the black memorabilia category. In 2006, Merrill became a fellow of the Open Society Institute where he worked with African American students. Merrill published The Art of Collecting Black Memorabilia in 1998. In 1999, he authored The Black America Series: Baltimore. Merrill received the Distinguished Black Marylander Award in 2002 and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate degree from Eastern Theological Seminary in 2007. In 2013, he authored the children's book, How Princess Wee Got Her Name.
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