Missing imported photos and their albums

Hi, and thanks in advance.
I've been using my iMac and iPhoto for about a year, with a (now) huge photo library. There have been no problems, and it's organized as I need it to be.
Yesterday, I imported 4 new events, from 2 iPhones and 2 Canon cameras. All worked fine. I added comments, established albums, added keywords all as normal. Fine.
This morning, I get in to iPhoto, and all of my new work is gone. In fact, there's nothing there since about January, which is just not right.
I've not had to get tremendously talented with Mac OS, so I'm not even sure where to start with this. I did force Time Machine to run each time I added the photos, but (stupidly) I have deleted them off the phones and cameras.
Have I lost my trip photos? If not, where can I find them on the original disk, or from within Time Machine (which I've never had to resort to before.) Lastly... what happened and how do I keep it from ever happening again?!
Thanks again, I appreciate all the help.

Am I to understand that something has failed then, at this point? Is rebuilding my only option, it's not that I've failed to open the correct file somewhere, or anything simple? I
It is likely that you have some corruption of the database file and it has "forgotten" the changes since January.
Is rebuilding my only option, it's not that I've failed to open the correct file somewhere, or anything simple?
I doubt that you have failed to open the correct file, that would mean you have duplicate libraries. Really, few things are more simple than Option 1.
(we've added almost 60k photos, and Apple had told me there was no upper limit.
There is an upper limit - 250,000 images, so you have a little headroom just yet.
Is there any point in my trying to learn how Time Machine works, and going back to a (functional) iPhoto library from last evening?
Do you have a TM Back Up? Then yes, restoring it is the best solution after option 1.
By backup, do you mean copying the entire iPhoto file in user, prior to relaunching iPhoto and trying to rebuild the library?
Yes.
is there a way for me to physically find the .jpg files I dumped last night into iPhoto, as these are my only copies of the photographs.
Yes there is, of course, but it's best to see if you can restore or repair that Library. If you cannot, then you're back to square one - making a new library and starting over from scratch. But that should not be necessary.
Anyway to get to them:
Go to your Pictures Folder and find the iPhoto Library there. Right (or Control-) Click on the icon and select 'Show Package Contents'. A finder window will open with the Library exposed.
Regards
TD

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