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World War II veteran Clifton Jackson, 89, sits at his kitchen table in the remote Inupiat Eskimo village of Noorvik, Alaska, on Sunday, Jan. 24. U.S. Census Bureau Director Robert Groves made Jackson the first American counted in the 2010 Census with a ceremony in the village.

The simple, direct style of this portrait gives it a trustworthy feeling, as though this photographer met Mr. Jackson as he is, without embellishment.

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