Merrill Butler papers

This collection documents the professional activities of Merrill Butler, an Engineer of Bridges and Structures for the City of Los Angeles Bureau of Engineering. It contains photographs of projects that Butler worked on including the 6th and 7th Street bridges, a small amount of correspondence, certificates, and reports. Box one contains a DVD about the 1st Street viaduct. There is a small amount of personal materials such as photographs from Butler's service in the United States Army 316th Engineers, Company D during World War I, biographical information such as resumes and a biography for his retirement, and condolence correspondence from friends and colleagues following Butler's death.