Is it possible to retrieve iCloud photos taken before photostream on mac was activated?

I was recently updating my iPhone 5 iOS software when itunes ejected my phone saying that it was drawing too much power (I later learned this was becasue the phone charger was stripped). Anyway, when it ejected my phone it went into recovery mode. I hade no choice but to restore it. It then restored to factory settings. Pictures, music, apps: gone. I retrieved my apps and music. However, my photos are gone and are not in my iPhoto. I thought i had backed it up but the latest backups on iTunes say 6 months ago. All of the photos i need are from the past 4 months. My iCloud says that i have 4GB of photos stored. Is there any way to get those iCloud photos into my iPhoto? I recently discovered how to turn on my iphoto photostream and it is currently working fine with new photos. But i would like to get my old photos that are in iCloud and not on any other dievice onto my computer. Any Suggestions?

You retrieve the photo stream photos from the last 30 days by signing back in to your iCloud account in Settings>iCloud and enabling photo stream.
If restoring your backup failed to restore your phones (as unfortunately sometimes happens), you could try the solution posted by ezjules in this post: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4076441?start=0&tstart=0.  This involves connecting your phone to your wall charger during the restore and after it restarts and you enter your Apple ID passwords, open your photos app and keep it open for the remainder of the restore process.  Some have reported success by doing this.

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