On 5/16/22 10:21, Levi C. Maaia, K6LCM via SBARC-list wrote:

Members, Marla Daily at the Santa Cruz Island Foundation asked if we could tell what the model radios were that Ed Stanton was using in this photo. Anyone know?

Almost certainly home-built. Note paper labels on meters and switches and the absence of brand logos. Hams built a lot of their own gear in those days.

Receiver is on the left, main tuning dial looks like it was cannibalized from a fairly high-end Zenith console. Back then many home console radios had pretty decent shortwave tuners, often with bandspread suitable for ham bands. Zenith was the Cadillac. Keep in mind that HF phone was AM, not SSB. The whole receiver could have been salvaged from a big console radio and repackaged.

Transmitter is on the right. Large lever knob is likely the bandswitch. Center black nameplate on transmitter kind of looks like it might possibly have been military but 1938 is too early for surplus military gear. I suspect it's completely homebrew.

Microphone could be Astatic JT-30.

Speaker cabinet is homebrew.