Rare Old Map of Rye, New York by USGS, 1955: Mamaroneck, Larchmont & Long Island Sound
Restored in our London workshop from the original 1958 map and printed to museum-grade archival standards. Full description
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Mix and match eligible standard maps and fine-art prints. No code is required; the offer is applied automatically at checkout.
Standard made-to-order configurations are included. Bespoke sizes, personalised designs and commissioned work are excluded.
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Restored from the original 1958 map and printed to museum-grade archival standards. Full description
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Titled “Mamaroneck,” this U.S. Geological Survey topographical map was published in 1958 using survey data from 1955, capturing a poised moment in...
Continue readingTitled “Mamaroneck,” this U.S. Geological Survey topographical map was published in 1958 using survey data from 1955, capturing a poised moment in the mid-century landscape of coastal Westchester County. At a precise 1:24,000 scale, it presents Rye, Mamaroneck, Larchmont, and neighboring communities with the clarity and authority for which USGS quadrangles are renowned. The map balances civic detail with natural form: streets, railways, shorelines, contours, reservoirs, wooded areas, and institutional grounds are all rendered in a carefully ordered visual language. It is a portrait of a region already shaped by suburban growth, yet still deeply connected to harbors, coves, points, and parklands along Long Island Sound.
The USGS brought to this map the disciplined cartographic style that made its topographical series indispensable for planners, engineers, scholars, and travelers. Contour lines articulate the low coastal relief of the area, revealing subtle rises and depressions that might otherwise disappear in a landscape dominated by roads and shoreline settlements. Color is used with quiet sophistication: built environments, vegetation, water, and transport corridors are differentiated without overwhelming the reader. The result is both technical and elegant, a map in which the measured precision of government survey work becomes visually compelling. Its symbols and shading techniques offer a layered understanding of land use, terrain, and human movement in the decade after the Second World War.
Rye occupies a central historical and geographical role on the map, with Rye Harbor, Milton Point, Greenhaven, and Orienta Point illustrating the town’s intimate relationship with Long Island Sound. The coastline is especially engaging, broken into inlets, coves, clubs, islands, and harbor facilities that speak to recreation, residence, and maritime culture. Playland, the celebrated amusement park opened in the 1920s, appears as a landmark of leisure on the Sound, anchoring the map in the social history of Westchester. Nearby features such as Purchase Island, Harbor Island, Castle Rock, and Coveleigh Club add texture to the coastal scene, marking a world of yacht clubs, summer grounds, and affluent waterfront communities.
The map also records the dense web of mid-century connectivity that tied these towns to New York City and the wider region. Main and secondary roads thread through Rye, Mamaroneck, Larchmont, and Port Chester, while rail lines indicate the enduring importance of commuter movement along the suburban corridor. Trails, shown in places by dotted lines, suggest a quieter geography of parks, open spaces, and local passageways. This coexistence of transportation infrastructure and natural margins is one of the map’s most evocative qualities. It shows an area in transition: settled and connected, yet still marked by reservoirs, wooded tracts, shorefront contours, and pockets of undeveloped land.
As a historical document, “Mamaroneck” preserves the settlement patterns and environmental character of coastal Westchester before later waves of development further transformed the region. Its careful depiction of land use reveals where urban fabric had already tightened and where open or semi-rural landscapes remained. The shore of Long Island Sound, with its harbors and promontories, appears not merely as scenery but as the organizing force behind communities, roads, recreation, and prestige. For collectors, the map offers more than geographic information: it is a mid-century snapshot of an elegant suburban coastline, rendered through the exacting eye of the USGS and enriched by the layered histories of Rye, Mamaroneck, and Larchmont.
Cities, towns and places on this map
- Rye
- Mamaroneck
- Larchmont
- Long Island Sound
- Rye Harbor
- Playland
- Orienta Point
- Castle Rock
- Greenhaven
- Milton Point
- Port Chester
- Coveleigh Club
- Harbor Island
- Purchase Island
- Various parks and forests
- Main and secondary roads
- Railways
- Trails
- Reservoirs and other water features
Historical context & cartographic details
- Published by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
- Created in 1955 and published in 1958
- Historical 1:24,000 topographical map showing Rye, New York, and the surrounding area
- Based on survey data from 1955
- Reflects mid-20th-century land use and settlement patterns before later urban development and environmental change
- Uses detailed contour lines to show elevation and terrain
- Depicts a mix of urban and natural landscapes, including water bodies such as Long Island Sound
- Employs colors and symbols to distinguish elevation changes, vegetation, built environments, and other topographical features
- Uses shading techniques to illustrate relief
- Demonstrates the USGS tradition of detailed mapping for planning, environmental study, navigation, academic use, and practical reference
Looking for a particular place? Review the detailed images to confirm that the town, landmark or feature you have in mind appears on the map. If you are unsure, ask our workshop to check before you order.
Detailed maps are especially rewarding at larger sizes, where names, boundaries and decorative features have more room to be appreciated. Use the close-up preview and size guide to choose the right scale for your wall.
This map looks amazing at sizes all the way up to 50in (125cm). If you are looking for a larger map, please get in touch.
The model in the listing images is holding the 16x20in (40x50cm) version of this map.
Where personalisation is available, you can add a short title or dedication, mark one meaningful place, or request one considered visual detail. See personalised map examples.
Every piece is printed to museum-grade archival standards using fade-resistant pigment inks on acid-free matte paper. Choose an unframed map print, framed map or canvas using the finish options above. Framed maps use crystal-clear optical acrylic and arrive ready to hang.
With its rich detail and strong sense of place, this map makes a considered gift for a new home, anniversary, retirement or anyone with a personal connection to the area shown. Still deciding? Explore our collection of rare old and vintage maps to discover another place, period or style.
This map is also available as a float framed canvas, sometimes known as a shadow gap framed canvas or canvas floater. The map is printed on artist's cotton canvas and then stretched over a handmade box frame. We then "float" the canvas inside a wooden frame, which is available in a range of colours (black, dark brown, oak, antique gold and white). This is a wonderful way to present a map without glazing in front. See some examples of float framed canvas maps and explore the differences between my different finishes.
For something truly unique, this map is also available in "Unique 3D", our trademarked process that dramatically transforms the map so that it has a wonderful sense of depth. We combine the original map with detailed topography and elevation data, so that mountains and the terrain really "pop". For more info and examples of 3D maps, check my Unique 3D page.
Titled “Mamaroneck,” this U.S. Geological Survey topographical map was published in 1958 using survey data from 1955, capturing a poised moment in the mid-century landscape of coastal Westchester County. At a precise 1:24,000 scale, it presents Rye, Mamaroneck, Larchmont, and neighboring communities with the clarity and authority for which USGS quadrangles are renowned. The map balances civic detail with natural form: streets, railways, shorelines, contours, reservoirs, wooded areas, and institutional grounds are all rendered in a carefully ordered visual language. It is a portrait of a region already shaped by suburban growth, yet still deeply connected to harbors, coves, points, and parklands along Long Island Sound.
The USGS brought to this map the disciplined cartographic style that made its topographical series indispensable for planners, engineers, scholars, and travelers. Contour lines articulate the low coastal relief of the area, revealing subtle rises and depressions that might otherwise disappear in a landscape dominated by roads and shoreline settlements. Color is used with quiet sophistication: built environments, vegetation, water, and transport corridors are differentiated without overwhelming the reader. The result is both technical and elegant, a map in which the measured precision of government survey work becomes visually compelling. Its symbols and shading techniques offer a layered understanding of land use, terrain, and human movement in the decade after the Second World War.
Rye occupies a central historical and geographical role on the map, with Rye Harbor, Milton Point, Greenhaven, and Orienta Point illustrating the town’s intimate relationship with Long Island Sound. The coastline is especially engaging, broken into inlets, coves, clubs, islands, and harbor facilities that speak to recreation, residence, and maritime culture. Playland, the celebrated amusement park opened in the 1920s, appears as a landmark of leisure on the Sound, anchoring the map in the social history of Westchester. Nearby features such as Purchase Island, Harbor Island, Castle Rock, and Coveleigh Club add texture to the coastal scene, marking a world of yacht clubs, summer grounds, and affluent waterfront communities.
The map also records the dense web of mid-century connectivity that tied these towns to New York City and the wider region. Main and secondary roads thread through Rye, Mamaroneck, Larchmont, and Port Chester, while rail lines indicate the enduring importance of commuter movement along the suburban corridor. Trails, shown in places by dotted lines, suggest a quieter geography of parks, open spaces, and local passageways. This coexistence of transportation infrastructure and natural margins is one of the map’s most evocative qualities. It shows an area in transition: settled and connected, yet still marked by reservoirs, wooded tracts, shorefront contours, and pockets of undeveloped land.
As a historical document, “Mamaroneck” preserves the settlement patterns and environmental character of coastal Westchester before later waves of development further transformed the region. Its careful depiction of land use reveals where urban fabric had already tightened and where open or semi-rural landscapes remained. The shore of Long Island Sound, with its harbors and promontories, appears not merely as scenery but as the organizing force behind communities, roads, recreation, and prestige. For collectors, the map offers more than geographic information: it is a mid-century snapshot of an elegant suburban coastline, rendered through the exacting eye of the USGS and enriched by the layered histories of Rye, Mamaroneck, and Larchmont.
Cities, towns and places on this map
- Rye
- Mamaroneck
- Larchmont
- Long Island Sound
- Rye Harbor
- Playland
- Orienta Point
- Castle Rock
- Greenhaven
- Milton Point
- Port Chester
- Coveleigh Club
- Harbor Island
- Purchase Island
- Various parks and forests
- Main and secondary roads
- Railways
- Trails
- Reservoirs and other water features
Historical context & cartographic details
- Published by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
- Created in 1955 and published in 1958
- Historical 1:24,000 topographical map showing Rye, New York, and the surrounding area
- Based on survey data from 1955
- Reflects mid-20th-century land use and settlement patterns before later urban development and environmental change
- Uses detailed contour lines to show elevation and terrain
- Depicts a mix of urban and natural landscapes, including water bodies such as Long Island Sound
- Employs colors and symbols to distinguish elevation changes, vegetation, built environments, and other topographical features
- Uses shading techniques to illustrate relief
- Demonstrates the USGS tradition of detailed mapping for planning, environmental study, navigation, academic use, and practical reference
Looking for a particular place? Review the detailed images to confirm that the town, landmark or feature you have in mind appears on the map. If you are unsure, ask our workshop to check before you order.
Detailed maps are especially rewarding at larger sizes, where names, boundaries and decorative features have more room to be appreciated. Use the close-up preview and size guide to choose the right scale for your wall.
This map looks amazing at sizes all the way up to 50in (125cm). If you are looking for a larger map, please get in touch.
The model in the listing images is holding the 16x20in (40x50cm) version of this map.
Where personalisation is available, you can add a short title or dedication, mark one meaningful place, or request one considered visual detail. See personalised map examples.
Every piece is printed to museum-grade archival standards using fade-resistant pigment inks on acid-free matte paper. Choose an unframed map print, framed map or canvas using the finish options above. Framed maps use crystal-clear optical acrylic and arrive ready to hang.
With its rich detail and strong sense of place, this map makes a considered gift for a new home, anniversary, retirement or anyone with a personal connection to the area shown. Still deciding? Explore our collection of rare old and vintage maps to discover another place, period or style.
This map is also available as a float framed canvas, sometimes known as a shadow gap framed canvas or canvas floater. The map is printed on artist's cotton canvas and then stretched over a handmade box frame. We then "float" the canvas inside a wooden frame, which is available in a range of colours (black, dark brown, oak, antique gold and white). This is a wonderful way to present a map without glazing in front. See some examples of float framed canvas maps and explore the differences between my different finishes.
For something truly unique, this map is also available in "Unique 3D", our trademarked process that dramatically transforms the map so that it has a wonderful sense of depth. We combine the original map with detailed topography and elevation data, so that mountains and the terrain really "pop". For more info and examples of 3D maps, check my Unique 3D page.
Many of our maps and art prints are chosen as thoughtful gifts for homes, offices, studies and meaningful places.
Choose a framed option for the easiest ready-to-hang gift, or choose an unframed print if the recipient may prefer to select their own frame.
We make orders locally in 23 countries around the world, so gifts can often be produced close to the recipient. This helps them arrive faster, travel more safely, and avoid customs or import duty surprises.
- We can deliver directly to the recipient
- Framed pieces arrive ready to hang
- Unframed prints are carefully packed in a strong protective tube
- Almost every order is made locally, for faster, safer gifting
- 90-day returns give the recipient time to decide
If you are not sure what to choose, please contact us. We can help you pick the right map, size, finish or delivery option.
Most orders are made locally and delivered in around 2–3 working days, depending on the product, size and destination.
We print and frame maps and artwork in 23 countries around the world, so your order is usually made close to you or your recipient. That means faster delivery, less time in transit, and no customs or import duty surprises.
Personalised and customised pieces usually take an extra 1–2 working days, because we prepare your design and send it to you for approval before printing.
Very large framed orders can take a little longer, as they need extra care in production and delivery.
Every order is carefully packaged: unframed prints are sent in a strong protective tube, while framed pieces are securely packed with protective materials around the frame.
If you need your order by a particular date, please contact us before ordering. We’ll check the best production route and delivery option for your location.
Express delivery is available at checkout for most countries. Next-day delivery is available in the UK, US, Singapore and the UAE.
Your order is covered by our 90-day returns policy and 10-year guarantee.
Our standard frame is a gallery-style black ash hardwood frame, with a simple, modern look. It is approximately 20mm (0.8in) wide. You can also view some lovely customer photos of framed maps and art.
We use super-clear acrylic glazing, also known as Perspex or Acrylite, instead of traditional glass. It is lighter, safer, and has lower reflectivity, giving the artwork a clearer, cleaner appearance.
Six standard frame colours are available at no extra cost: black, dark brown, dark grey, oak, white, and antique gold. Custom framing and mounting/matting is also available for customers looking for something more specific.
Most maps, art prints, and illustrations are also available as a framed canvas. We use matte cotton canvas, stretch it over a sustainably sourced wooden box frame, and then float the piece within a wooden outer frame. The finished result is beautifully presented, with no glazing between you and the artwork.
All frames are supplied ready to hang, with either string or brackets fitted to the back. Very large frames will include heavy-duty hanging plates and/or a mounting baton. If you have any questions, please get in touch.
We can also supply old maps and artwork on canvas, foam board, cotton rag, and other materials.
If you would prefer to frame your map or artwork yourself, please read our size guide before ordering.
Every Unique Maps piece begins with an authentic cartographic source or an original design from our London studio.
For our historic maps, we source rare originals from libraries, archives, auction houses and private collections around the world. We carefully restore each map for print—repairing age-related damage, balancing colour and improving clarity while preserving its original detail, texture and character.
Once restored, the map is prepared for your chosen size and finish. Your piece is then printed and, where selected, framed close to its delivery destination.
Our map prints use acid-free 200gsm archival matte paper and fade-resistant pigment inks, creating a rich, non-glossy finish designed to last. Framed maps use crystal-clear optical acrylic and arrive ready to hang.
Canvas, cotton-rag and other specialist presentations are also available. Learn more about our materials and finishes.
Personalising your map
You can add a short title or dedication, mark one meaningful place, or request one considered visual detail. For personalised designs, we send a proof before printing and you can request changes before approval.
For more complex bespoke commissions, contact our design team.
Original or Aged
Choose Original for true-to-source colour, or Aged for a warmer, richer antique character created with our specialist ageing process. See examples of our Aged maps.
We’ve been restoring and producing maps and art prints since 1984, and we stand behind every piece.
Every order is covered by our 10-year guarantee and damage-free delivery guarantee. If your piece arrives damaged, we’ll replace or remake it free of charge. If anything else isn’t right, contact our workshop team and we’ll put it right promptly.
See our returns and refund policy for full details.
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