Is there a Way to Delete Duplicate Pictures in I Photo on an I Mac Maverick OSX 10.9.2?

I have large photo files in I Photo on my new I Mac Maverick computer.  There are close to 50,000 pictures, of which probably two thirds are duplicates.
Is there some way for the computer to identify the duplicates and remove them?  I suppose I could one by one select and trash them but that seems like a formidible task.  The pictures are not all located in an orderly manner.  For some reason when the photos were moved from my old mac to the new one they organizied themselves in a manner inscrutable to my limited understanding.  Due to the way in which they are organizied, to select them manually one by one would be somewhat risky.   I would have to keep an index of each picture ID number and try and not eliminate pictures that I actually wanted to save.  Seems like the sort of things that a computer would do well.  Anyway, I'd appreciate some help.
Thank You.

You moved them incorrectly by importing the old library into your new system. You must NEVER import an iPhoto Library. You simply connect the systems and drag the old library to the pictures folder of the new system and launch iPhoto letting it upgrade the library. There will be no duplicates and your old organization will remain exactly as it was
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