 With an eye to America's upcoming centennial, Greatorex published a book of drawings of old New York buildings in 1875, with a commentary by her sister Matilda.Some of the sketches from this series were included in the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia.In 1868 she was elected an associate of the National Academy of Design, becoming the second woman to receive that recognition after Ann Hall, who had died some six years earlier.