Transfer of Pictures from PC to MacBook Pro

Two questions. I recently bought a MacBook Pro and successfully transferred pictures from our PC. Although photographs in IPhoto retain the dates on which they were originally taken, those in Pictures only have the date on which they were transferred, ie 'created', entirely unhelpful. How do I access the original date on which the photographs were taken, not available under Info?
Second question, more complicated, duplication of photographs in IPhoto and Pictures: is there a simple way of merging them? We used to download pictures from IPhone onto our PC under date folders, without realising they were being duplicated. Identifical pictures appear in about 6 different folders - how I can I edit them without having to do so manually?
Any help (not too technical) gratefully received.

There is more than one date that can be associated with an image, and I think you're running into different programs displaying different dates. This is not a comprehensive list but:
Capture date: Date and time the photo was recorded by the camera clock, stored in EXIF camera data.
Created date: Date and time the photo was first saved to disk by photo software on a computer
Modified date: Date and time the edited photo was last saved to disk by photo software on a computer
Archived date: I'm not really sure but I see this in detailed photo information too.
Furthermore, these dates can be stored in various additional date fields in other IPTC metadata sections, and various software might not write or read them in the same ways as other software.
But what I think is going on in your case is that the iPhoto Info panel is displaying the Capture Date from the camera recorded EXIF data, but what you see in the Finder are the Created and Modified dates.
If I'm right, then LexSchellings' column suggestion may not work because all you would get is the File Created date, not the camera recorded Capture Date. I do not know of a way to display camera EXIF capture date in the Finder. Generally, organizing photos using that data is done using a photo management app like iPhoto, Picasa, Apple Aperture, Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Bridge, Media Pro, etc., not on the desktop.
If you were able to view the Capture Date in Windows Explorer, then that's an advantage that Windows Explorer (the desktop) had over the Finder. I've seen other cases where the Finder couldn't do something Windows Explorer could, so I wouldn't be surprised.
As far as the duplicates, I don't really know but I did a search at macupdate.com and you might want to check some of these utilities that can help resolve duplicates.
MacUpdate search on "duplicate photo"
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