Jet vol. 1 no. 9

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Jet Magazine, volume 1, number 9, featuring a black and white image of singer Lena Horne, against an orange background. Horne is seated, facing forward with her hands on her hips and her proper right shoulder slight back. Horne is wearing a light colored, beaded, strapless dress. Just above Horne’s proper left shoulder is the model’s credit with a caption in white ink, that reads [LENA HORNE: / She rates No. 1 / among the sexiest / Negro women] and the associated cover line running along the bottom of the cover in an orange banner that reads [THE WORLD’S SEXIEST / NEGRO WOMEN] in white type. The top third of the front cover is the mast head in white text [JET / THE WEEKLY NEGRO NEWS MAGAZINE] on the left side and the date line, price and publisher, [Dec. 27, 1951 / A JOHNSON PUBLICATION / 15c], on the right.

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