slide viewer
The main formats for stereo photography at the beginning of the 20th century were 6x13cm and 45×107mm for a pair of glass plate photos.
I'm busted: from left to right you see a D300, a battery-powered slide viewer that set me back $2 at a thrift store in San Luis Obispo last week, my 30" screen writing these pages (small cut-out of wedding photo of wife glued to top right of monitor), ...
Small inexpensive slide viewers are available for less than $15.00. Of course the best way to view slides is to project them in a dark area. This way each image is an enlarged showing fine detail.
Many people call them 'slides' but they are more correctly referred to as 'transparencies'. To properly view slides or transparencies you should project them onto a white screen in a darkened room or use a purpose made slide viewer.
 See also: Slide, View, Photograph, Prints, Format
  
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