it was all for the benefit of the tourists , of course-a group of whom stood brushing the snow from their coats and marveling over the glass case by the register , which contained a few items originally owned by the famous 1860s soiled dove , julia c. the display was designed to generate interest in the bullette red light museum down the street , where folks could see more intimate items , as well as some nineteenth-century medical instruments , all for a buck .