SAN FRANCISCO 1ST CLIFF HOUSE’S VIEW OF OCEAN BEACH 1877 STEREOVIEW PHOTO. SAN FRANCISCO 1ST CLIFF HOUSE’S VIEW OF OCEAN BEACH, SAN. CAPTIONED IN THE LOWER FRONT LEFT MAT. 1203 Looking down the Beach, from the Cliff House, San Francisco, Cal. In 1877, Enoch Conklin traveled around the Arizona Territory photographing for the Continent Stereoscopic Company. He photographed a variety of events and places, including towns, mines and mining, Native Americans, the arrival of the first locomotive in Arizona, and the completion of the railway bridge across the Colorado River near Yuma. Conklin augmented his own photographs by acquiring the negatives or copying the work of other photographers in the Territory. The Mining Record Printing Establishment published Conklin’s travelogue as Picturesque Arizona: Being the Result of Travels and Observations in Arizona During the Fall and Winter of 1877. The book included engravings of images taken and gathered by Conklin, but credited them to the Continent Stereoscopic Company. PHOTOGRAPHER’S ADVERTISEMENT ON REVERSE. Conklin’s Picturesque Arizona. The Most Thoroughly Descriptive Book on Arizona, in Existence. AND THE RICH SILVER MINING INTERESTS. SHARP FOCUS VERY GOOD CONTRAST. DIMENSIONS: 6 15/16″ x 4 3/16″.