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P3D Re: Stereopticon

  • From: JNorman805@xxxxxxx
  • Subject: P3D Re: Stereopticon
  • Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 05:10:42 -0700
Ron Keas writes:

<<I've noticed that most older folks that I've talked to about
 stereo-photography
 refer to the antique stereoscope as a "stereopticon". >>

I've been a guilty party, but I think I've mended my "misnomeric" ways, for 
the most part.  I have no idea how the misnomer got started, but as for the 
"when," I can contribute this:  When I was a kid (I'm 57 now) a family friend 
had a Holmes-type viewer, which was known to all as a "stereopticon."  Then, 
when my parents bought me a View-Master, in about 1948 or 1949, they also 
called it a "stereopticon."  So, the misnomer goes back at least that far.

Jim Norman