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David McLean

Stunning Edinburgh colour photos capture capital streets in the early 1960s

It's always fascinating to see Edinburgh through the lens of a visitor, but even more so when said visitor arrived in the city more than 60 years ago.

In the early 1960s amateur American photographer Charles Weever Cushman (1896-1972) visited Scotland's capital and captured dozens of colour images documenting what he saw.

Mr Cushman, an alumnus of Indiana University spent his later years travelling the world with his trusty Kodachrome camera and took to Edinburgh's streets in June 1961.

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