CAPTION: Sure Sign Of Spring - The J. W. Westcott II on Monday began the 80th season of getting sailors' mail to them while they work the ships that ply the Detroit River. The Westcott, shown getting ready to deliver a batch of mail via a bucket to a U.S. Steel Co. freighter, the F. W. Robinson, provides postal service from April to late December to domestic and foreign ships on the river. Detroit is believed to be the only city in world that has a mail boat for passing ships. The Westcott, which is moored at the foot of Twenty-Fourth Street, delivers more than a million pieces of mail every season..
Photo is dated 04/08/75 and measures 10 x 8 inches.
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