IPhoto is pointing to thumbnails, not full pix

I had to rebuild a library a year or so ago, with the assistance of Apple help, which is where I suspect this problem started ... in any case:
I just realized that a minority of the 6,000-plus pictures in iPhoto were fuzzy and had strangely low file sizes: 19K, for example. (Many others are crisp and in the multiple-MB size.) I looked into the Photos file and it appears that, at least in the cases I checked (hopefully all!), there is a full-sized photo and also a thumbnail. For some reason iPhoto is pointing to the thumbnail, which I assume means that is the version that would be printed, emailed, and so on.
How can I "point" iPhoto to the full-sized photo and not the thumbnail?

Okay, here are the further steps I've taken. I did venture into the Pictures folder--frowned on, I know--to see if larger originals existed of the 19kb-size photos in iPhoto.
I found that by previewing those photos, you could see if the photos had been imported into iPhoto; if they hadn't, you could click a box and important them. Many of my high-res photos were not imported, for whatever reason, so I did so, one by one. Tedious but hopefully productive. I did not touch anything else in that folder.
But I do also seem to have a two-libraries-file problem. (This may be the result of the Apple Care call I mentioned earlier, in which someone walked me through reconstructing a corrupted library by creating a new one.)
I have a libraries file called Newlibrary, and another called iPhotoLibrary6. Both have been updated in the last day.
Is the recommended next step to merge these, using iPhoto Library Manager?

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