Home › Archives About the Archives The online Commercial Appeal Archives are text only. Photos are not yet included. The Archives contain the full text of staff-written stories from all sections (news, metro, business, sports, viewpoint, community, etc.) since June 27, 1990. Staff editorials are included, as are all nonpaid obituaries. "For the Record" material (marriages and divorces) have been saved in the Archives since January, 1998. What's not in the archives Graphical material (photographs, drawings, display advertising) will not appear in the archives. However, although the graphic portions of charts and maps are not included, the textual material in them has been, in many cases, attached to the archived story. Material published in agate (very small) type, such as sports statistics, stock tables and classified advertising is not included. Since November, 2004, all letters to the Editor are archived. Before that date, selected letters were archived.