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A school teacher from Brooklyn, poses for a portrait near the National Mall in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 19, 2009.
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A spectator on the National Mall takes a photograph of the immense crowd prior to the inauguration of Barack Obama on the morning of Jan. 20, 2009.
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Kazida Hall makes adjustments to his homemade kite on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 19, 2009. Hall is a founding member of the West Indian American Kiters Association.
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Marti Elliott cheers on the Nationl Mall after Barack Obama is sworn in as the 44th president of the United States on Jan. 20, 2009. Elliott is a high school teacher in Atlanta and made the trip to D.C. with some of her students.
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Crowds cheer as MSNBC's David Shuster reports live from the National Mall in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 19, 2009.
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Brian and Aliyah Malik, both from Philadelphia, share an embrace on the National Mall at the end of the Inauguration ceremony in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 20, 2009.
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JRZ, a rap musician from New Jersey, poses for a portrait as he holds up his homemade Barack Obama t-shirt on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 19, 2009.
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Jane Williams gives a cardboard cutout of Barack Obama a kiss as her friend Joni Goheen looks on in a souvenir shop on Jan 19, 2009 in downtown Washington, D.C.
