Originals and duplicates in iphoto

I'm trying to clean up iPhoto which currently has 11,000ish photos.
I downloaded Duplicate Cleaner for iPhoto which found a lot of duplicate photos. So I deleted all those.
Now I'm going through and manually deleting bad photos my kids shot over the past 7 years.
As I've been scrolling through and deleting photos I see that photos are broken into sets by date that are separated by a gray bar. But then there are also groups called "Originals" periodically that have the exact same photos (see screen shot).
Are these actually different files, or are they the same file organized into different groups?
I did a search for "originals" in iPhoto and it returned a set of about 600 photos all of which have the heading "Original" in the gray bar.
Can I delete all these photos or (as I asked above) are these just different "views" of one file and I'll lose all of them. In other words, are these duplicate files or just repeated views of the same single file?
Thanks for any guidance.
Peter

I did a search for "originals" in iPhoto and it returned a set of about 600 photos all of which have the heading "Original" in the gray bar.
Do you also see groups "Modified" or "Edited"? This looks suspiciously like you imported a complete iPhoto library, thumbs, edited versions and original files. If in doubt what to delete, don't delete the versions in "Original" but the thumbs and previews in lesser quality. Compare the file sizes and pixel sizes of the photos, before you decide which duplicate to delete. Make sure, you keep the best quality version and not a preview or thumbnail.

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