How can pictures be downloaded from iCloud storage to a PC?

I had a lot of problems with my iPhone 4S that appeared immediately after my warranty expired. My phone was not recognized by any other computers or devices--not just by iTunes, but by the computer itself. I tried every fix for that, but was unsuccessful. This meant that I had thousands of pictures stored on my device with no really good way to get them off. I tried a Dropbox app, but attempting to upload 7000 pictures at once kept crashing it and I didn't have time to deal with it manually. Basically, 10 of the 16G of storage on my phone was devoted to pictures, and when iOS8 dropped, I didn't have enough memory to update. I finally received my new iPhone 6 today, a year after those problems started, and paid to upgrade my iCloud storage. I then spent about 8 hours letting everything, including all of my pictures, backup to the cloud. After all that, my iCloud account on the computer said that I couldn't view the pictures unless I upgraded my device to iOS8, which kind of messed up the entire plan. I decided though that since both my phone and PC desktop iCloud account said that I had 10G of pictures in the cloud, it was there, so I'd just access everything when I activated my iPhone 6. Well, now I have my iPhone 4S off and my new phone set up, with every possible photo sharing option turned on everywhere I could find but online and on my phone, it says the pictures are "in there" but that my iCloud photos and drive are empty, so I can't actually view or access them! What gives?! My new phone is working fine, but I'd rather not lose over 7000 pictures!

UPDATE: all that is in my drive is my "Mail" accounts and a BACKUP when I go to manage data. Is there any way to get photos a set of backup data if they were not added picture by picture to the photo stream? When I click on the options for the Photo Steam in iCloud, nothing happens (because it thinks it's empty, I'm assuming). Are these now a different file type that is inaccessible? The device on which these were taken and are stored is deactivated so I cannot use cellular data on it anymore.

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