1857-1858       Address Unknown, Baltimore, Maryland.

1857-1860       Over 91 Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland.[1]

1858-1860       Over 125 West Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland.[2]

1857 July.  The Photographic And Fine Art Journal.  July 1857, New Series Vol. IV, Old Series Vol. X, No. 7, P. 202.

Photography in Baltimore…

Mr. Israel, who does a thriving business, and takes a great many photographs and ambrotypes, and works them very successfully.

1857 September.  The Photographic And Fine Art Journal.  September 1857, New Series Vol. IV, Old Series Vol. X, No. 9, P. 263.

Photography in Baltimore…

Mr. Israel has one of Woodward’s Solar Cameras in operation, and from appearances does a good business.  Last Saturday there was a grand Rail-Road jubilee of Western Visitors from Cincinnati, St. Louis, Chilicothe [sic.] Ohio.  The military were all out, and the procession was grand.  Many views were taken of it by the different galleries—Mr. Pollock, Mr. Israel, and Mr. Whitehurst, of these three gentlemen, they all did their own operating except Mr. Whitehurst…

1858 October 7.  The Daily Exchange.  (Baltimore, Maryland.)  October 7, 1858, Vol. II, No. 195, P. 1.

The Institute Exhibition.—…On the left of the entrance upon the side of the hall, Mr. Israel displays an extensive collection of plain and colored photographs, ambrotypes, &c., embracing likenesses of many well-known citizens.  These pictures possess a high order of merit.

1858 November 3.  The Daily Exchange.  (Baltimore, Maryland.)  November 3, 1858, Vol. II, No. 218, P.1.

The Maryland Institute Exhibition, Closing Night.  Address of the President, Sam’l Sands, Esq.  The Award Of Premiums…Class No. 43.—

F. W. & R. King, for photographic view cameras and stereoscopic view cameras, Silver Medal;

S. G. Israel, for photographs in oil, water color, India ink and plain, and ambrotypes and photographic views on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.  Silver Medal.

D. L. Clark, for photographic view of Barbee’s Fisher Girl.  Diploma.

1859 February 25.  The Daily Exchange.  (Baltimore, Maryland.)  February 25, 1859, Vol. III, No. 313, P.1.

Photographs of Prisoners.—Mr. Israel, Photographist, at the request of the relatives of one of the prisoners confined in the jail, awaiting execution, took his apparatus to the prison on Wednesday for the purpose of taking Photographs.  He succeeded in getting excellent pictures of Cropps, Corrie, Duvall, and the negro Cyphus.  Cropps’ picture is particularly good.  Gambrill and Ford refused to sit for theirs.

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[1] Address and activity dates from Craig’s Daguerreian Registry.

[2] Address and activity dates from Directory Of Maryland Photographers 1839-1900.