“One unique venture should be noticed,” Peffer continues, “not because it has a general application to this field but because it is an interesting example of what may be done under special conditions. The Barnes Foundation of Philadelphia is the educational outgrowth of the A.C. Barnes Company, manufacturing chemists., but it is primarily the product of a unique personality…” So begins Nathaniel Peffer’s 1926 introduction to an aspect of Albert C. Barnes’s educational efforts of which I was previously unaware.