How can I restore an older backup?

During today's operating system update on my iPhone 5, something went wrong. The update didn't work, and the phone was restored to factory settings.
I went to restore my latest backup - fully expecting that the latest connection and sync backed everything up prior to the software update. Unfortunately, iTunes actually backed up the post-restore to factory settings instead of the backup created earlier in the day. As a result, I am without my photos, text messages, updated contacts, etc.
How can I find and restore this morning's backup instead of this afternoon's factory default backup?
Help greatly appreciated!!
PhotoCal

PhotoCal wrote:
Does this mean I have no recoverable backups for this device?
Other than the one listed, that would appear to be the case.
It's curious that backups for two other iPhones in the family are dated from 1982 and 1981.
Since the first iPhone was released in 2007, those are not iPhone backups.

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