How do I move photos from Time Machine backup to iPhoto in new Mac?

A friend has been backing up his very old Mac with an external drive.  I find lots of pages about move/copy TO external drive but need to find a correct way to move them from the backup drive to iPhoto on the new Mac.

You do not "move" files from a TM backiup - you restore tehm using the TM program - launch TM and go to the time you want to restore from, select the iPhoto library and click restore
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