TheGeezer has the ID on the transmit/receive switch; I couldn't see it in yesterday's photo and ventured that the the 4-pole knife switch (to the right of the telegraph key) was the T/R.

Looking at it today, I think the 4-pole knife switch probably controls at least the filament power to the transmitter. It looks like there is another meter just behind this switch, which probably monitors the filament voltage or current. I don't know whether this 4-pole switch would have been closed all the time when the set was operating, or whether it had to be closed to transmit and open to receive.

It was only in 1921 that the first one-way ham transmissions from US to Europe with tube transmitters happened. In late 1923, two US hams were able to talk to one French ham. Young Herbert may have been part of this effort at trans-Atlantic communications. They were working around 1.5 MHz, or the upper part of today's AM broadcast band. (More history here.)

The closest modern ham band is 160 meters, or 1.8 to 2.0 MHz. A radio for that band that replaces everything on this table looks like this. It can transmit and receive in both CW (Morse code) or voice, and handle 10 other bands as well. You can use it in a fixed installation, or with a bit of care, install it in your car and drive around. It doesn't look as cool, though.

On the right, a U30 Rectifier similar to the Mullard tube in our photo.

The strap descending from the window seems to be connected to the pole of a switch (the part of the switch that is movable, with the large black handle). The large coil appears to be connected through a meter to one side of the switch. That would make it a radio-frequency (RF) ammeter, which the operator used to tune the coupled coils, using variable capacitors, to the desired frequency. It appears the coil coupling could REALLY be varied to control loading of the transmitter RF onto the antenna system.

The other side of the switch connects to a wire, which likely fed the antenna input of the receiver. The handle switched the antenna connection to the transmitter and receiver.

Big stuff, this.