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The Indianapolis Brewing Co., which was founded in 1887 with the merger of three local breweries, was once one of the nation’s largest breweries. It won medals at the Paris Exposition of 1900 and the St. Louis World’s Fair in 1904. It survived Prohibition by building a non-alcoholic product base and making legal medicinal tonics. The brewery operated at 316 Agnes St., which is now University Boulevard, until 1948, when the company’s president went to jail, accused of short-filling bottles. In this photo, a chemist works in a lab there.
Sources: Indiana Historical Society, Indiana State Library, historicindianapolis.com
Credit: This photo is courtesy of the Indiana Historical Society and is part of the Larry Foster Collection. More images are available at images.indianahistory.org.
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