The cover of the July 1939 issue of Boys’ Life, shows U.S. Boy Scouts at the 1939 New York World’s Fair.  Scouting at the Fair consisted of a camp in the “Government Zone,” near the pavilions of the various countries represented.  The camp would accommodate four troops of 33 scouts and 4 leaders.

At any given time, a third of the scouts were sightseeing at the fair, a third were on duty at the camp itself, and the other third were performing service for the Fair.

During the fair, a citizenship ceremony, officiated by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Owen Roberts, was held for a group of former scouts who had just turned 21 years old and were being naturalized as U.S. citizens.