Historical Images

The Library boasts a rich collection of ex-libris. The collection comprises of 4,500 bookplates dating from the 19th and 20th century, made with different techniques and bearing different medical symbols. Among them, readers will find ex-libris of Walther Bruck (1872-1937) – professor of dentistry from Wroclaw or ex-libris of Tadeusz Owiński (1904-1995), the pioneer of academic dentistry in Wroclaw. The iconographic collection also includes such items as postcards from health resorts in Lower Silesia and Kresy.