Help!  I just imported my vacation photos and now they are missing in iPhoto! Is there any way to retrieve them?

I just "successfully imported" over 300 vacation photos.  It asked me if I wanted to delete them from my camera and I said yes.  I've done this hundreds of times over the past several years.  Afterwards, I got sidetracked looking in another photo event and then did something on my phone (unrelated) when I noticed my screen went black.  I figured I needed to charge my laptop, so I got the cord and plugged it in.  After restarting, I went back into iPhoto and under my events there is a thumbnail for each day from vacation, but a generic black and white picture of a palm tree and no pictures in any of the events.  My last import is of the pictures I loaded before this batch.  I've looked everywhere and can't find them!  This has never happened before!  Is there any way to find the photos and restore them to iPhoto?
Thank you so much if you can help!!!

a best practice to is to never have any computer program (including iPhoto) delete the photos from the card but to import the photos and keep them and then after at least one successful backup cycle has completed and then reformat the card --  I use three very large (32 GB) cards in rotation so I do not reformat for typically a year or more giving me one more long term backup of my photos
You Back up your iPhoto library, Depress and hold the option (alt) and command keys and launch iPhoto - from the resulting first aid window repair permissions and if necessary rebuild your database
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