The Paris Peace Conference, also known as the Versailles Peace Conference, opened on January 18, 1919, ran through July 1923, although the senior officials left the Conference in June of 1919. RBML holds the papers of significant people and organizations in attendance. Materials on display include selections from the papers of James T. Shotwell, historian of the American delegation and author of the day-to-day account “At the Paris Peace Conference;” the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, founded by Andrew Carnegie in 1910, with Columbia President Nicholas Murray Butler serving on the board of directors from 1910 until 1945; Charles Richard Crane, appointed to the American delegation by Woodrow Wilson and co-author of the King-Crane Commission on the post-war future of the Middle East; and Wellington Koo, Columbia Class of 1908 and PhD (1912), a member of the Chinese delegation to the Peace Conference, China’s first delegate to the League of Nations, and one of the founding delegates to the United Nations.