Portrait Miniature and Daguerreotype

Portrait Miniature and Daguerreotype, America, mid-19th century, the two cased objects including a portrait miniature of a woman wearing a black dress and gold chain, painted in an oval in a rectangular thermoplastic case; and a sixth-plate daguerreotype showing a man and woman in a black leather case, the inside of the case inscribed "Mary G Ellis/Taken September 25th 1855," miniature 2 1/2 x 2 in.