{{Short description|Dutch photographer}} {{Infobox person | name = Jacob Olie | image = Jacob Olie (1834-1905) zelfportret 1862.jpeg | image_caption = Self portrait, 1862 | birth_date = 17 October 1834 | birth_place = Amsterdam | death_date = 25 April 1905 }} [[File:Jacob Olie edition of Description des arts et métiers - french encyclopedia 1761-1782.jpg|thumb|Jacob Olie's well-thumbed copy of the French encyclopedia called ''Descriptions des Arts et Métiers'', given to the special collections department of the University of Amsterdam by Olie's great-grandson]]
'''Jacob Olie''' (1834 – 1905) was a photographer from Amsterdam known for his scenes of everyday life there.
Olie was born in Amsterdam and was trained as a carpenter and draughtsman.<ref name=RKD>Jacob Olie (Jbz) in the RKD</ref> He became a teacher at the local school for craftsmen known as the ''Ambachtsschool'', converting it to be the first ever vocational school of the Netherlands for boys.<ref>[http://bijzonderecollecties.uva.nl/nieuws-agenda/agenda/content/evenementen/2015/11/encyclopedieen-bezichtigen.html Article about the encyclopedia] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208115312/http://bijzonderecollecties.uva.nl/nieuws-agenda/agenda/content/evenementen/2015/11/encyclopedieen-bezichtigen.html |date=2015-12-08 }} on the website of Special collections</ref> He took up photography as a hobby. Today he is known for his unusually sharp depictions of various parts of Amsterdam that no longer exist. His son by the same name also became a photographer. <gallery> Jacob Olie (1863) - Kromme Waal 9 tm 21 (ged.) (v.r.n.l.).jpg|Amsterdam 1863 Bickersgracht 12A (achterzijde) (max res).jpg|Amsterdam 1890 GillesvLedenberchstraat-JacobOlie.JPG|Amsterdam, ca. 1895 Jacob Olie (1896) - Kromme Waal 1-39 (v.r.n.l.).jpg|Amsterdam 1896 Jacob Olie 001.jpg|Amsterdam 1892 </gallery>
== References == {{reflist}} * Amsterdam in de tweede helft der XIXe eeuw gezien door Jacob Olie Jacobsz, by Eeghen, I.H. van, Genootschap Amstelodamum, 1960
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