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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Max Fisher's retirement speech from United Brands
Christmas shoppers in Detroit in the 1950s
Detroit Mayor Coleman Young and President Jimmy Carter
Robert Aronson explains that Max Fisher could ask people for money effectively and get what he asked for.
Congratulatory letter from President Bill Clinton to Max Fisher for receiving the National Distinguished Leadership Award in 1994.
Max Fisher with Yitzhak Rabin in 1967.
Letter from President George H.W. Bush to Max M. Fisher, George Klein, and Richard Fox – the Chairmen of the National Jewish Coalition.
Letter from Max M. Fisher to The Texas Jewish Post in support of President Reagan's economic policy.
Operation Exodus Campaign Inaugural meeting
Jewish Welfare Federation Plaque
Max Fisher with Henry Kissinger in the White House. Signed, "To Max Fisher - With the affection and admiration of his friend - Henry A. Kissinger."
Max Fisher in 1977
Max Fisher's biographer, Peter Golden, explains Fisher's lead-by-example fundraising strategy.
Blighted urban housing in Detroit in the 1970s
Detroit business and community leaders, left to right, Robert Surdam, Henry Ford II, Max Fisher, and Robert McCabe in front of the Renaissance Center, late 1970s.