The collection of Documents of Everyday Life was composed in 1952 of selected items stored in the Jagiellonian Library.
The chronological range of this collection covers prints published after 1945 to date, with the exception of theatre posters and bookshop catalogues. The earlier prints, called printed ephemera, are partially stored in the General Stackroom and partially in the Section of Rare Books. The collection of items that belong to the section of Documents of Social Life consists of:
Posters
Bulletins of socio-political organisations, workplaces as well as those connected with sports and others
Propaganda brochures
Pricelists, declarations, selected ephemera, news-sheets
Directories of clubs and theatres, tourist booklets, event and meeting directories
Operating manuals of machines and tools
Short-text calendars
Bookshop and antiquarian catalogues
Exhibition guides
Death notices
Crosswords
Children's books
Member lists of social and professional organizations, lists of Members of Parliament, councillors etc.
Materials connected with disputes and public events
Polish norms, trade patents, patent descriptions
Stickers
Placards
Postcards
Event programmes
Booklets
Protocols of proceedings
Tourist guides
Regulations
Timetables of PKP, PKS, LOT,
Phone directories
Statutes
Invitations, flyers
The most interesting objects:
Ninteenth-century bookshops catalogues
Posters of Cracow theatres from the 19th century to date (including a silk poster and the poster of the first staging of Stanisław Wyspiański's Wedding)
Propaganda prints from 1945 to 1956.