What happened to my iPhoto Library icon

How do I return my iPhoto Library Icon to what it is supposed to be.
This is what it is in Finder>Pictures
I don't know how this change occurred and would like to be corrected.

Add the following suffix to it
.photolibrary
so that it reads iPhoto Library.photolibrary

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