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History of the Municipal Research and Services Center

History of the Municipal Research and Services Center


Seventy-Five Year Retrospective of the Municipal Research and Services Center (2009)

The presentation below is an interactive timeline of the Center's history from 1934 through MRSC's 75th anniversary in 2009.

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Twenty-Five Years of Governmental Research and Service (1959)

This publication describes the development of the Municipal Research and Services Center organization(Formerly the Bureau of Governmental Research and Services at the University of Washington) through its first 25 years of existence from 1934 to 1959.

FRONT MATTER - FRONT COVER TO V (Adobe Acrobat Document 1.17 MB)

CONTENTS - V TO IX (Adobe Acrobat Document 86 KB)

CHAPTER 1 - ORIGIN AND HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT - P.1 TO 29 (Adobe Acrobat Document 2 MB)

CHAPTER 2 - THE BUREAU TODAY - P.30 TO 44 (Adobe Acrobat Document 467 KB)

CHAPTER 3 - THE RESEARCH AND SERVICE PROGRAM - P.45 TO 59 (Adobe Acrobat Document 511 KB)

CHAPTER 2 - APPENDICES - P.60 TO 77 (Adobe Acrobat Document 584 KB)