Best serpent fountain we've seen all week.  From Millikin's 1925 yearbook.

"She thought the water was cleaner in the past and had only turned bad recently, although she didn't know where she had gotten this idea" (Robert Williams, Peculiar, MO, 2007).  Well, here's one place she might have gotten that idea.  From Lustige Blätter, 1917.

From La Lune Rousse, 1879.

From Longwood's 1924 yearbook.

From the University of Wisconsin's 1919 yearbook.

From the University of Wisconsin's 1919 yearbook.

If you ever wondered where inkblots come from, they spurt from fountains.  This inkblot fountain from Le Pêle-Mêle, 1896.

From Perets, 1906.

"On Earth, fountain is one thing, light another.  When thirsting, thou seekest a fountain, and to get to the fountain thou seekest light" (St. Augustine of Hippo).  From East Carolina's 1973 yearbook.

This photograph may be used to retrieve a lost insight from the "Fountain of Knowledge."  From the Wartburg yearbook of 1955.

From The Pearl Fountain by Bridget Kavanagh & Julia Kavanagh and illustrated by J. Moyr Smith, 1876.