Harriet Swailes, ca. 1910s
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Harriet Swailes was hired as a “general office girl” to work in the 3M office in Duluth in 1903. She moved with the company to Saint Paul in 1910, became a stenographer and then a secretary to William L. McKnight until 1928.
This file appears in: Working Women at 3M
Working Women at 3M
Women at Work
Women have worked at 3M since its early years and have played ever more varied and diversified roles.
In 1916, the year the company made its first profits and began to pay dividends on its stock, there were only a handful of female…