Yes, they made hand crank machines.
I had a friend whose mom died about 5-6 years ago, she had a hand-crank Singer that he inherited. He was going to take it to the dump because he could not imagine anyone in their right mind would want something like that, he assumed everyone wants all the bells and whistles. I about came unglued, I told him lots of people want them for their RVs or remote, off-the-grid cabins! I rescued it from him, took it home, gave it a good cleaning, made sure it worked, and loaded pictures of it on the internet. Within hours I had 3 offers. I sold it the next day and gave my friend the $250 I had sold it for. He was blown away.
That Singer was interesting in that it had a shuttle-type bobbin. I'd never seen one before.