A statewide effort to preserve Indiana’s bottling and beverage heritage.
IndianaBottleCollectors.com is dedicated to documenting bottlers, dairies, breweries, soda works, pharmacies, and related businesses from across the state. The goal is to create a permanent, searchable archive for collectors, researchers, and future generations.
The project continues to grow through ongoing research and contributions from private collectors. Whether you want to identify a single bottle or explore the industry of an entire town, this resource is being built for you.
Thank you to the collectors, researchers, and bottle photographers who help document Indiana’s bottling history. Your contributions support the Indiana Bottle Collectors archive and make this project possible.
Honoring individuals whose outstanding support, research, and dedication form a foundation for the Indiana Bottle Collectors archive.
Recognizing contributors whose submitted images, research, and shared knowledge help expand the Indiana Bottle Collectors archive.
Have Indiana bottle photos or information to share? Fill out our user submission form and you may be featured here as a contributor.
Answers about the purpose of this project, what we accept, and how the database is being built.
Indiana’s bottle history is scattered across private collections, old records, and forgotten sources. This project brings everything together in one searchable archive for collectors, historians, and future generations.
Online resources that once documented certain types of Indiana bottles are now gone. When sites like that disappear, the information disappears with them, leaving collectors with nowhere to turn. This project aims to preserve that history for many more years.
We accept many types of items related to Indiana’s bottlers, dairies, soda works, breweries, druggists, and other beverage or packaging businesses.
Advertising and ephemera
Paper labels and packaging
Photos and historical materials
No. We do not appraise bottle values. This site focuses on historical documentation, not pricing or market value.
Bottle prices vary widely depending on condition, regional interest, and collector markets. We recommend checking recent sales on platforms like eBay or connecting with collector groups for current market values.
At this time, the database focuses exclusively on Indiana bottles. However, if an Indiana bottler also operated in another state or distributed their bottles across state lines, we may include those related items as part of their history.
Yes. Some Indiana bottles do not have the town embossed or printed on them, but if you know the bottle is from Indiana, please submit it along with any information you may have.
This is an active database and it takes time to research and fill in every town and city. Some places have very limited surviving records. We heavily rely on user submissions to help build and verify the database over time.
La Porte County currently has the most detailed information because the primary researcher is a local resident with easier access to archives and collections here. As research continues, other counties will expand.
Yes. Fragments can still help confirm a town, company, date range, or embossing style, and they are historically valuable. Some bottles are known to exist only because pieces were found.