c. 1950 promotional tourism booklet: For an Ideal Vacation come to Chautauqua County Summer Playland of South Western New York. 48 pages. Measures 8 1/2 x 5 1/2.  Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs, credited to several photographers including John O. Bowman - who signed this copy.

John Oliver Bowman (1884–1977) was a legendary figure in regional photography. Based in Mayville, NY—the county seat right at the head of Chautauqua Lake—he gained nationwide fame under the moniker "The Box-Camera Champion of the Universe." Despite using an incredibly rudimentary, fixed-lens box camera his entire life, Bowman possessed a genius eye for "Pictorialism"—a style of photography that mimics the soft, atmospheric textures of paintings. He spent decades traversing the hills, grape belts, and shorelines of Chautauqua County, capturing farmers at work and sunsets over the water. His simple box-camera work was so breathtaking that it earned him a 99-print solo exhibition at the 1939–1940 New York World's Fair, catapulting him to national prominence in the popular press

Published by Chautauqua County Board of Supervisors. Designed, compiled and prepared by Charles Rich Advertising Agency, Jamestown, NY. Printed by Lafayette Press, Jamestown, NY.