As will be noted in the subsequent listing, only a small percentage of the companies were in business for a period longer than ten years; of those that continued longer, all but a few had disappeared by 1910. Today there are about sixty United States sewing-machine companies. Most of them manufacture highly specialized sewing machines used for specific types of commercial work; only a few produce family or home-style machines. Foreign competition has increased, and the high cost of skilled labor in this country has made competition in this consumer-product field increasingly difficult. The countless varieties of American family sewing machines, so evident in the 19th century, have passed away. First Made Discontinued Manufacturer or Earliest or Last Sewing Machine or Company Record Record Aetna Aetna Sewing Machine ca. 1867 ca. 1877 Co., Lowell, Mass. Aiken and ----, Ithaca, N.Y. ca. 1855 before 1880 Felthousen Alsop ---- -- ca. 1880 American American Sewing 1854 -- Machine Co. American Buttonhole, American Buttonhole, 1869 ca. 1874 Overseaming and Overseaming and Sewing Machine Sewing Machine Co., (fig. 68) Philadelphia, Pa. Later New American Sewing ca. 1874 ca. 1886 American Machine Co., (fig. 69) Philadelphia, Pa. American Magnetic American Magnetic 1853 1854 (fig. 70) Sewing Machine Company, Ithaca, N.Y. Atlantic (fig. 71) ---- 1869 ca. 1870 Atwater (fig. 87) ---- 1857 ca. 1860 Avery Avery Sewing Machine 1852 185- Co., New York, N.Y. Avery Avery Manufacturing 1875 1886-1900 Co., New York, N.Y. A. Bartholf Manfr. A. Bartholf, ca. 1850 185- Blodgett & Lerow manufacturer, patent 1849 New York, N.Y. (_see also_) A. Bartholf Manfr. A. Bartholf, 1853 ca. 1856 Howe's patent, manufacturer, 1846 (fig. 72) New York, N.Y. Bartholf A. Bartholf, 1857 1859 manufacturer Bartholf Sewing 1859 ca. 1865 Machine Co. Bartlett (fig. 73) Goodspeed & Wyman 1866 ca. 1870 Bartlett Sewing Machine ca. 1870 1872 Co., New York, N.Y.