Photo gallery: Fib’s Collection of Record Proportions

The extensive antique record player collection of a Blue Rapids man is on display at the Blue Rapids Museum as “Fib’s Collection of Record Proportions: 94 Years in the Making.”

photo by: Bill Snead

Floyd Sutton, photographed in 1999. His collection of antique record players are on display at the Blue Rapids Museum as "Fib's Collection of Record Proportions: 94 Years in the Making."

photo by: Mike Yoder

Martha Sutton, wife of Floyd Sutton, sits among a few of her husbands extensive collection of antique record players now on exhibit in Blue Rapids as "Fib's Collection of Record Proportions: 94 Years in the Making." Floyd died earlier this year.

photo by: Mike Yoder

Numerous models of antique and still playable working gramophones line a table in the exhibit "Fib's Collection of Record Proportions: 94 Years in the Making" in Blue Rapids.

photo by: Mike Yoder

Antique record players and clocks on display at the Blue Rapids Museum as "Fib's Collection of Record Proportions: 94 Years in the Making." A former grocery store was used for the exhibit with community members contributing money to help with the flooring. Donor names are marked on their section.

photo by: Mike Yoder

Tables full of records and gramophones on display at the Blue Rapids Museum as "Fib's Collection of Record Proportions: 94 Years in the Making." Floyd died earlier this year.

photo by: Mike Yoder

Large decorated gramophone horns on display at the Blue Rapids Museum as "Fib's Collection of Record Proportions: 94 Years in the Making."

photo by: Mike Yoder

Martha Sutton demonstrates a working antique cabinet Victrola on display at the Blue Rapids Museum as "Fib's Collection of Record Proportions: 94 Years in the Making."

photo by: Mike Yoder

A Columbia "Royal Blue" 78 record made of blue shellac and featuring Russ Morgan and his Orchestra performing 'Love Me Forever' sits in an Angelophone cabinet, one of over 200 antique record players part of Floyd Sutton's collection. .

photo by: Mike Yoder

A wall of antique clocks on display at the Blue Rapids Museum as "Fib's Collection of Record Proportions: 94 Years in the Making."

photo by: Mike Yoder

A newspaper clipping of collector Floyd Sutton on display in front of a large collection of antique clocks.

photo by: Mike Yoder

A Columbia Model Q cylinder phonograph, circa 1898 on display at the Blue Rapids Museum as "Fib's Collection of Record Proportions: 94 Years in the Making."

photo by: Mike Yoder

A Stereoscope viewer and stereoscopic photograph cards are part of the Blue Rapids Museum exhibit "Fib's Collection of Record Proportions: 94 Years in the Making."

photo by: Mike Yoder

A few buildings in downtown Blue Rapids are visible outside the Blue Rapids Museum where brass Gramophone horns are displayed along with other items in "Fib's Collection of Record Proportions: 94 Years in the Making."