Photo library?? all photos not available

Hi!
I switched to the iCloud Photo library to save storage on my phone and iPad
Every photo of mine is in iPhoto and iCloud, however I can not "see" older photos NOT taken on phone and iPad in the Photos app (on phone and iPad)
Is this due to iCloud Photo library being beta, or is there a setting I am missing??
if due to beta, will this functionality work soon?
thx for your help!

correction!!! all of my photos are NOT on iCloud, but they are in iPhoto on my Mac

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