Where are iPoto modified files stored on my computer?

When I go to Music/iTunes/, I can find a subfolder that includes many subfolders of Albums, Artist names, and the songs I put into iTunes. Same thing with email files. When I go to Pictures/: I can see an iPhoto Library icon (but no /subfolders) which I assume contains all the files in some kind of compressed archive.
My backup harddrive crashed (where I stored my iPhoto subfolders) and I found two iPhoto Library icons, one sized 2.2 MB and one sized 5.7 MB? The bigger one would not import pictures, only the smaller.
I would like to know where my modified photo files are stored in the my main harddrive,

Thanks Terrence, that solved my question.
Before the two replies I received, I had double clicked on the smaller file and it started importing. I immediately stopped that import and started importing (from where, I could not tell) using the larger Library, and it took all night to do so. Thankfully: the files were GB, not MB. However the import created thousands of Faces (which I had never tried to do), so now it is 8.75 GB in size.
Then I checked my post and found your solution. I control-clicked on both Libraries, and followed your helpful instruction to not change anything, but looked around to see what was there. The smaller Library had separate folders for each year from 1999 to 2006. So, I assumed it was an older Library containing noting past 2007. Looking in those yearly folders only resulted in what appeared to be subfolders of data files. When I looked into the larger library, it had the same folders (1999-2006 only), but it had imported photos from 2007 thru 2010 also?? Looking around for those years, I found a folder called "Originals" which contained subfolders for 2000,3,4,& 6-2010 only. In those folders were jpegs of a lot of my later photos.
Therefore, I assume that the "Original" folder contained photos that had been modified and were now "enhanced originals", but it still seems funny that the Library did not contain folders separately named "2007" - "2010" to keep track (data files) of those photos.
Looks like I have all my thousands of photos, but since I am an inquisitive engineer, are my assumptions correct, and is that archival folder methodology I just described (previous paragraph) something that is going to create a problem?

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