The Max M. Fisher Resource Center

The Resource Center provides access to a database of photos, video clips, letters, documents, newspaper articles, awards and other archival material. There are several user-friendly ways to search the Resource Center. The “Quick Search” field above offers a keyword search for those who know what they are looking for. Searches can also be filtered by Topic and Type from the pull-down menus to the right. Click on any item on this screen to see more detailed information. On each detail page, click on the Related Resources for additional items of related interest.

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President Reagan's Task Force Welcoming Letter
Gerald Ford discusses Max Fisher's effectiveness.
Max Fisher in meetings with President Ford and staff in the White House in the spring of 1975.
Congratulatory letter from Brian Kott, President of the Detroit Chapter of the AJC, to Max Fisher on his receiving the National Distinguished Leadership Award.
A personal letter from Secretary of State George Shultz.
Bar-Ilan Degree
Max Fisher holding his award with Rabbi Maurice N. Eisendrath, president of the American Hebrew Congregations, and Industrialist Lester Avnot.
"The Amazing Life of Max Fisher" ran as the feature story on the front page of The Detroit Free Press on October 2, 2003 and detailed the life of the philanthropist and the opening of the Max M. Fisher Music Center at the Detroit Symphony Orchestra Place.
The Detroit Riots of 1967
Max Fisher next to his sculpture at the Jewish Community Center in West Bloomfield.
Peter Golden, Max Fisher's biographer, discusses Fisher's influence with President Ford.
Peter Golden offers an enlightening quote about Max Fisher from Ronald Reagan.
Michigan GOP Honors
Max Fisher meeting with Richard Nixon and other leaders, including John Ehrlichman, William Rogers, Rabbi Hershel Schacter, and William Wxler, in the White House in 1970.
Max Fisher with Leon Dulzin, Joseph Sternstein, Charlotte Jacobson, and Ephraim Evron at the American Assembly for Zionism and Israel in 1981.