Photograph of Fairchild Beach Cottage - Waveland, Mississippi

"Victorian Cottage, Waveland" circa 1936

During the past few weeks, I wrote a series of posts about Carlotta Nelson Fairchild and her family that included her only child, Christine Nelson Fairchild.  Recently, I located a photo in the online digital collection of the Library of Congress, identifed as "Victorian Cottage, Waveland (MS)" that is believed to be the Fairchild beach cottage once known as "The Myrtles."  The image was taken by Walker Evans, a well-known photographer who worked in the 1930's for an agency of the Farm Security Administration.  According to newspaper archives and his biographies, Walker Evans knew Christine Fairchild and later married Christine's friend, Jane Smith Ninas, formerly married to New Orleans artist, Paul Ninas. It was likely that Evans took the photograph of the Fairchild beach cottage when he accompanied Christine and Jane and Paul Ninas on a visit to Waveland, Mississippi.     


Source:  Photo Collection: Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. Reproduction Number LC-DIG-fsa-8c52054.  Photographed by Walker Evans, 1903-1975.