C.M. Gilbert
Early, Unpublished Cabinet Card Portrait of the Radical Social Reformer and Birth Control Advocate Rachelle Yarros Slobodinsky, c. 1893
Albumen print
6 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches
With Gilbert's credit mount recto and verso, and subject ID verso.
With Gilbert's credit mount recto and verso, and subject ID verso.
An early, unrecorded portrait of Rachelle Slobodinsky Yarros, an American physician and early champion of the social hygiene movement. The photograph was presumably taken when she was studying at the...
An early, unrecorded portrait of Rachelle Slobodinsky Yarros, an American physician and early champion of the social hygiene movement. The photograph was presumably taken when she was studying at the Woman's Medical College in Philadelphia.
Rachel Slobodinsky Yarros (1869–1930) was a Russian-born American physician and social reformer active in Chicago’s progressive and public health circles. Trained at the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, she settled in Chicago, where she practiced medicine while working among immigrant communities. She was closely associated with Hull House and the reform network surrounding Jane Addams, contributing to efforts in sanitation, maternal health, and the welfare of working-class families.
Yarros is best known for her involvement in early birth control advocacy alongside her husband, Victor S. Yarros. Writing and speaking on reproductive health, she argued for access to contraception as a public health necessity, particularly for poor and immigrant women. Her work placed her within a controversial but influential movement that intersected medicine, feminism, and social reform.
Active in both professional and radical circles, Yarros represents a generation of immigrant physicians who combined clinical practice with reform work. Her career reflects the overlapping worlds of progressive-era medicine, settlement activism, and early debates over reproductive rights in the United States.
Rachel Slobodinsky Yarros (1869–1930) was a Russian-born American physician and social reformer active in Chicago’s progressive and public health circles. Trained at the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, she settled in Chicago, where she practiced medicine while working among immigrant communities. She was closely associated with Hull House and the reform network surrounding Jane Addams, contributing to efforts in sanitation, maternal health, and the welfare of working-class families.
Yarros is best known for her involvement in early birth control advocacy alongside her husband, Victor S. Yarros. Writing and speaking on reproductive health, she argued for access to contraception as a public health necessity, particularly for poor and immigrant women. Her work placed her within a controversial but influential movement that intersected medicine, feminism, and social reform.
Active in both professional and radical circles, Yarros represents a generation of immigrant physicians who combined clinical practice with reform work. Her career reflects the overlapping worlds of progressive-era medicine, settlement activism, and early debates over reproductive rights in the United States.