A bake­lite tray con­tain­ing 25 glass slides can be insert­ed by flip­ping down the front of the view­er. Then, by depress­ing the lever on the right side of the hous­ing, one slide after anoth­er can be exam­ined. On the left side of the view­er, there is a counter which indi­cates the num­ber of the slide and allows nav­i­ga­tion to a spe­cif­ic slide. There are also two small­er levers on the left. One brings a mir­ror into posi­tion allow­ing the slide title to be read through the right ocu­lar while the oth­er oper­ates two block lens­es inside the view­er used for mag­ni­fi­ca­tion. These lens­es can also be per­ma­nent­ly low­ered in front of the ocu­lars by a switch on the inside.
The base of the view­er has three draw­ers hold­ing four trays, mak­ing it pos­si­ble to store a total of 300 slides. The stor­age cab­i­net con­tains ten addi­tion­al draw­ers, result­ing in a capac­i­ty of 1000 slides in total.
In-depth infor­ma­tion on the Tax­iphote can be found here: Le Tax­iphote — the most famous French stereo viewer