Does family sharing mean all photos are backed up to one icloud account?

I am unclear what Family Sharing means.
Does family sharing mean all photos are backed up to one icloud account?  Or simply that we can all see each other's streams.  As it stands now, I understand we can share streams, without having family sharing enabled.  Basically, I want to know if we can be logged into separate icloud accounts yet share photo and document storage as we currently can with dropbox.
I want to share photo storage and file backup with my wife.  Currently, we both use her apple id to make store purchases and have our own icloud accounts.  This solves some problems, but I still have old itunes purchases(grant you fairly old at this point) that I cannot access when I am logged into her id. 
I realize we could both use our own icloud account and upgrade storage individually, but this fails the economy test.  We have roughly 60 gb of family photo storage, so we would both need 200 gb plans.
we both have ipads and iphones.  i simply want us each to be able to take photos and have them automatically saved to one storage solution.
Thanks in advance.
Shalom

The only way you can see the contents of an iCloud backup is to restore it to an iOS device. You could restore it to your new phone -- but that would mean you would first have to erase your new phone so I wouldn't recommend it unless you have nothing of value on the new phone. In theory you could backup the new phone, erase it, restore from the old and see what is there and copy the photos to a computer and then erase it again and restore it back from the new phone backup. I would emphasize that is at your own risk as restoring from backups do not always go as advertised. More info: iCloud: Restore your iOS device from iCloud

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