Series 1. Articles about B. Traven and his works 1948-1986
Articles on B. Traven, including Michael L. Baumann's Reflections on B. Traven's language (1976), a typescript by Rolf Recknagel (1975), typescripts of two of Jannach's papers on B. Traven, and an article on Tina Modotti and Edward Weston by Amy Conger (1986) 1948-1986
Newspaper (original) and magazine articles (photocopy and original) on B. Traven, including Judy Stone's Ramparts article, The Mystery of B. Traven (1967) and Gerd Heidemann's Stern article, Wer ist der Mann, der Traven heisst? (1967) 1955-1973
Magazine titled The Pennsylvania Gazette, complete copy, vol. 74, no. 6 (April, 1976) including article by Michael L. Baumann, "Who is B. Traven?" on p. 15-21, 40-42; and story from magazine Showcase vol. 2, no. 6 (1960s?) by B. Traven, "Why I don't get drunk no more at Doña Amalia's cantina", p. 2-4, 63-65. 1960-1976
Photocopy of complete book: Rolf Recknagel, B. Traven: Beiträge zur Biographie (Leipzig: Reclam, 1971) 1971
Series 2. Correspondence 1949-1987
Correspondence between Hubert Jannach and Michael L. Baumann 1974-1977
Correspondence between Hubert Jannach and Peter Briscoe. Includes typescripts of two papers on B. Traven presented by Jannach in 1952 and 1965, a conference program from the 1982 Penn State conference on B. Traven, and correspondence regarding transfer of Jannach's papers and selected B. Traven books to the University of California, Riverside Library 1952-1987
Correspondence between Hubert Jannach and W. Bernard Fleischmann, editor of Encyclopedia of World Literature in the Twentieth Century, Frederick Ungar Pub. Co., to which Jannach contributed the article on B. Traven 1960-1970
Correspondence between Hubert Jannach and Charles R. Humphrey 1963-1964
Correspondence between Hubert Jannach and Charles Miller 1963-1974
Correspondence between Hubert Jannach and Carl Mora, University of New Mexico Press 1974
Correspondence between Hubert Jannach and various correspondents, including E.R. Hagemann 1949-1979
Series 3. Research and biographical material 1926-1978, undated
Notes and correspondence on the B. Traven article "Spielzeug," Typographische Mitteilungen, vol. 26 (1929), p. 71-73, including a photographic reproduction of the article 1929-1964
Conference on the Life, Literature and Cinema of B. Traven, held at the University of Arizona, April 18-20, 1975; includes program and correspondence relating to the conference, at which Jannach gave a paper titled The Early and Later Works of B. Traven 1974-1975
Newspaper clippings, photocopies, manuscript notes, book reviews of B. Traven books, some B. Traven stories 1926-1969
Research notes, manuscript and typed, Hubert Jannach circa 1938-1978
Research notes, manuscript, Hubert Jannach; and photocopied excerpts from the National Union Catalogue circa 1978, undated