Portrait of Don Manuel Cota, [s.d.]

Photographic portrait of Don Manuel Cota, [s.d.]. He is pictured from his torso to his head and is facing straight ahead. He is wearing a dark suit, dark vest, dark tie, and white shirt. He is old and has thinning white hair and a white moustache and goatee. He is thin and has large ears and sunken eyes. His home was on the west side of Main Street between First Street and Third Street when the entire district was adobe houses. Picture file card states that: "He remembers when he was a boy, Colonel John C. Fremont, commanding a party of United States troops, rode up to his house and an orderly asked him if there were any men at home. He replied 'No'. The orderly reported this to Fremont with the comment that he did not believe it and advised searching the house. But Fremont replied, 'It is best not to offend citizens' and they rode away". There were five men hiding away in the rear rooms of the house. The picture file card also states that this information came from Charles Prudholme.

唐·曼努埃尔·科塔（Don Manuel Cota）肖像照，拍摄日期不详。该肖像照展示其头部至躯干部分，人物正面朝向镜头。他身着深色西装、深色马甲、深色领带，内搭白色衬衫。他年事已高，头发花白且日渐稀疏，留着白色髭须与山羊胡，身形瘦削，双耳偏大，眼窝深陷。该区域彼时均为土坯房，他的住宅位于主街西侧、第一街与第三街之间。照片档案卡记载：“他儿时曾记得，约翰·C·弗里蒙特（John C. Fremont）上校率领一队美军途经其住宅，一名勤务兵上前询问家中是否有成年男性。他回答‘没有’。勤务兵向弗里蒙特复命时表示自己并不相信这一说法，并建议搜查宅邸，但弗里蒙特答道：‘最好不要冒犯平民’，随后一行人便策马离去。”当时有五名男子藏匿于宅邸的后方房间内。该照片档案卡同时注明，此段轶事源自查尔斯·普拉德霍姆（Charles Prudholme）。