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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Bill Berman talks about Max Fisher's commitment to finding consensus among groups in the pursuit of the right decision.
Max Fisher poses with a plaque from an article from The Detroit News about his involvement with the renaissance of Detroit.
A handwritten letter to Max M. Fisher from an L.A. Times reader thanking him for his role in negotiating the Rogers Plan.
Max Fisher agrees to serve as Chairman of New Detroit during a meeting at McGregor Conference Center on the Campus of Wayne State University.
Photographs from the Conference on Human Needs in Israel, 1969.
Max Fisher's biographer, Peter Golden, explains Fisher's lead-by-example fundraising strategy.
Congratulatory letter from Alexander Haig to Max Fisher on his receiving the National Distinguished Leadership Award in 1994.
Groundbreaking on the Riverfront Apartments
Milwaukee Journal article entitled "Detroit Refuses to Give Up" about the Detroit Renaissance.
Elie Weisel, Max Fisher and Golda Meir
Peter Cummings describes what it's like to work with Max Fisher.
Max Fisher and  Zalman Shazar
Left to Right: Max M. Fisher, Detroit Mayor Coleman Young, Michigan Governor William Milliken
Peter Golden, Max Fisher's biographer, discusses Fisher's influence with President Ford.
Chaim Weizmann Portrait
Peter Cummings explains why Max Fisher is such an effective fund-raiser.