Missing photos on new phone

I recently upgraded from a broken 32gb iphone 4 to a new 32gb 4s but now less than half of my photos appear in my camera roll on the new 4s. The old phone was backed up to icloud before it was broken, and again backed up before buying the new 4s. My message and phone history now appear over 6 months old on the 4s iphone. My main questions is: How do I get the missing 600 photos onto my new 4s? I used the icloud back-up daily instead of backing up to my iMac. Are the missing photos lost forever? Or is there a way to recover them and download them onto my new 4s? Thanks in advance for the help!

Additional info:
I didn't download any of the photos onto my iMac, ever, so they're not in iPhoto folder. I already checked that. I was counting on them being in the cloud and when I activated a new device, they would just download automatically when I connected to wifi.

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