Ah..thanks, Q! I was paying too much attention to words and not enough to dates.

I guess if the Presbyterian church were involved in providing a Broom Brigade for entertainment, it's highly possible that my pic could have been a Christian Temperance group.

It seems like the information for me to relay is that Broom Brigades existed after the Civil War and weren't isolated to any particular area. They appear to have marched/drilled and were often enjoyed as a pleasant spectacle.


When I searched at archive.org, all I came up with was a set of rhymes for children. How did you word your search?

thanks,
M