The Max M. Fisher Resource Center

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A personal letter from Secretary of State George Shultz.
Max Fisher in 25 words or less poster.
Michigan GOP Honors
Max M. Fisher with A. Alfred Taubman in the early 1980s
Coleman Young amid construction of Detroit's Renaissance Center
Letters congratulating Max Fisher on his 1971 "What Can We Do for Detroit?" speech.
HUD Certificate of Appreciation
Jewish Welfare Federation Plaque
Max Fisher next to his sculpture at the Jewish Community Center in West Bloomfield.
Photographs of Max Fisher and Louis Pincus, the architects of the reconstitution of the Jewish Agency, in Israel in 1964.
Detroit Councilman Kenneth Cockrel, who opposed city tax breaks for the development of Riverfront
Jewish Statesmanship Award
Left to Right: Max M. Fisher, Louis Hamburger, Edward C. Levy, Israeli Ambassador to U.S. Itzhak Rabin, and Samuel Hamburger during the Jewish Welfare Federation Pacesetters Meeting at the Sheraton-Cadillac Hotel in Detroit.
Left to Right: Phillip Hart, J.L. Hudson, Jr., Robert P. Griffin, and Max Fisher
Max Fisher with Marjorie, Jane Sherman, and others at the JAFI Assembly in 1990.
Groundbreaking for Renaissance Center