Restoring only specific folders from a Time Machine backup

I am sorry if this is not the right community to ask this question.  I truly was not sure where to post this as it involves the OS, iOS, Time Machine, iTunes...
I am trying to restore ONLY my photos from a MobileSync folder located on my Time Machine backup. I do not know how to go about restoring just the photos or if this is even possible? Possibly restore the entire Backup folder if needed.  Whatever it takes. I know this sounds odd but my brother passed away and I lost all of the photos on my phone when I upgraded to iOS 7. Some of which have no copies floating around elsewhere. I attempted to retore from backup through iTunes and was informed my previous backup was damaged.  I am currently using the latest version of Mavericks and iTunes 11.1.3.  The backup I would like to recover files from is a Snow Leapord backup dating back to July of 2013 and from an iPhone 4.  I currently have an iPhone 5.
Any help, guidance or insight would be greatly appreciated as I had hoped to print and frame these photos for family members.
Thank you.

You should be able to just restore the photos.
First though, you might consider making a backup of the drive that has the photos on it. I would get another external HD (anything except WD will do), and use CarbonCopyCloner to clone the drive.
What you would do to restore the photos is just click on the drive that has the Time Machine backups on it, and navigate to one of the backups or the MobileSync folder. In TM the backups are arranged by date; I'm not sure about MobileSync. Then you just open the backup and navigate to the photos, and drag the folder with the photos to your desktop.
I am sure the people at your local Apple store would help you.
Sorry for your loss.

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