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 poses with a plaque from an article from The Detroit News about his involvement with the renaissance of Detroit.
Max Fisher and President Ronald Reagan in the oval office.
Peter Golden offers an enlightening quote about Max Fisher from Ronald Reagan.
Max Fisher, Paul Milstein and Seymour Milstein
Congratulatory letter from Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir to Max Fisher on his receiving the National Distinguished Leadership Award in 1994.
In 1999 Max Fisher was named a Michiganian of the Year by The Detroit News.
Peter Cummings relates Max Fisher's instinct to work behind the scenes.
Milwaukee Journal article entitled "Detroit Refuses to Give Up" about the Detroit Renaissance.
Michigan GOP Honors
American Jewish Committee Human Relations Award
Max Fisher speaks at the Allied Jewish Campaign fundraising event in 1958.
Max Fisher signing the Agreement for the Reconstitution of the newly Reconstituted Jewish Agency for Israel
Peter Golden, Max Fisher's biographer, on Fisher's role as conduit in deals between US and Israel.
Congratulatory letter from Israeli President Ezer Weizman to Max Fisher on his receiving the National Distinguished Leadership Award in 1994.
Max and Marjorie Fisher with Henry Ford II and his wife, Christina, during a trip to Israel in 1972.
1999, Michiganian of the Year Award