Janice, my mistake. I'd only come across 'stereopticon' before back in the 60s in Adrienne Cecile Rich's The Evil Eye in Readings of History.
Last night we sat with the stereopticon
Laughing at genre views of 1906 . . .
I assumed it was the American English for the hand-held stereoscope with a sliding frame to hold double images on card, which is the thing in my attic inherited from grandparents,
Doesn't really affect Rich's poem, but I now see a stereopticon was a stereoscopic projector or 'magic lantern, as you say. Sorry about the confusion.
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