Photos in new album disappeared

I imported photos from my digital camera to my computer.  Brought them up in iphoto.  Created a new album.  Saved the photos to the new album.  The album is now empty.  I deleted the photos after I saved them to the album (yea, I know - dumb me).  If I select another unrelated photo and save it to that album, it shows up.  Where did my photos go?

Assuming you're running iPhoto 9 or later do the following:
1 - launch iPhoto with the Command+Option keys held down and repair the library.
2 - Run Option #4, Rebuild Database, followed by Option #1 if needed.
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