Photo Duplication

Hi,
We have a MacMini 2.5Ghz Intel Core i5, 4 GB 1600 MHz DDR3, running OS X Yosemite 10.10.2
We have a bit of an issue with duplicate photographs.
When we first bought the computer we uploaded all our saved images/music/files etc from an external hard drive, which we hd salvaged following a motherboard fail on our previous laptop.
Howeever, unbeknown to us, there was many many duplicate files on that drive, specifically p[hotographs. Backing up iPods/IPads/IPhones led to even more duplicates.
The extent of the issue wasn't clear until we had launched iPhoto, when all the duplicates became visible. It has been a painstaking job, using numerous duplicate remover apps, and a lot of time and effort, but seemingly we have deleted most of the duplicates from within iPhoto itself.
However, we have not, it seems, deleted the actual physical files. The amount of our hard drive that our photos are taking up is not reducing. We desperately want to get this to a manageable level, to allow some sort of cloud storage back up, but it is still in excess of 50GB, with the majority of that duplicates.
So my questions are:
a) Where on my Mac can I find the actual physical photo files? I only seem to be able to find my iPhoto library file
b) Is there an easy way of removing duplicates within this, or if not easy, at least a method that would work? Or a really solid app that would do this.
Just to add complexity- I am not sure all the duplicates will have exactly the same name.
Any help gratefully received.
Thanks

These applications will help identify and remove duplicate photos from an iPhoto Library:
iPhoto Library Manager - $29.95
PhotoSweeper - $9.95 - This app can search by comparing the image's bitmaps or histograms thus finding duplicates with different file names and dates.
Duplicate Annihilator - $7.95 - only app able to detect duplicate thumbnail files or faces files when an iPhoto 8 or earlier library has been imported the library.
DeCloner - $19.95 - can find duplicates in iPhoto Libraries or in folders on the HD.
DupliFinder - $7 - shows which events the photos are in.
iPhoto AppleScript to Remove Duplicates - Free
PhotoDedupo - $4.99 (App Store) - this app has a "similar" search feature which is like PhotoSweeper's bitmap comparison. It found all duplicates
Duplicate Cleaner for iPhoto - free - was able to recognize the duplicated HDR and normal files from an iPhone shooting in HDR
Some users have reported that PhotoSweeper did the best in finding all of the dups in their library: iphoto has duplicated many photos, how...: Apple Support Communities.
If you have an iPhone and have it set to keep the normal photo when shooting HDR photos the two image files that are created will be duplicates in a manner of speaking (same image) but there are only twp apps that detected the iPhone HDR and normal photos as being duplicates: PhotoSweeper and Duplicate Cleaner for iPhoto. None of the other apps detected those two files as being duplicates as they look for file name as well as other attributes and the two files from the iPhone have different file names.
iPLM, however, is the best all around iPhoto utility as it can do so much more than just find duplicates. IMO it's a must have tool if using iPhoto.

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