Can't see some pics in iPhoto

Hi, I have a large iPhoto library containing about 800 events.
A new event has appeared called 'Recovered photos' which seems to contain about 500 pictures which are a mixture of scans I made about a year ago, and photos downloaded from a camera. I don't know why this has appeared I have not had any problems with iPhoto. I cannot open any of these pictures. They just appear as black squares but have names that I recognise. If I try to search for any of these pictures this black one is the only one found.
I have repaired permissions (Iphoto) and rebuilt the library but no change.
I have made regular TimeMachine backups over the year could I reinstall from this?
iPhoto 9.5.1 MacBook Pro 2009 running 10.9.4
Any suggestions?  Thanks in anticipation.

As far as I can tell all of the photos in the recovered event are the 'originals' I can't find them anywhere else, so deleting them is not an option, I need them back!
Sorry, your original post was a bit ambiguous. I thought your library is complete from " don't know why this has appeared I have not had any problems with iPhoto."
I cannot open any of these pictures. They just appear as black squares but have names that I recognise. If I try to search for any of these pictures this black one is the only one found.
That means, that iPhoto has found edited versions, but the originals of these photos could not be found in the iPhoto Library.
Sometimes iPhoto Library Manager can find missing originals that iPhoto cannot find.  Use this download link:     iPhoto Library Manager
Run it and use its rebuild mode. It will create a copy, as described here:    Rebuilding a corrupted iPhoto library
the free trial version will suffice. You do not need to buy the full version for this task.

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